Lord Dunsany 2 hr 11 min read

Written from a barracks in 1916 while recovering from a wound, these dreams, a tale of the equator, three infernal jokes, a narrow escape, are offered as the dearer for a world at war.

Lord Dunsany's 1916 collection gathers his wry, imaginative fantasy tales. Lyrical, ironic, gently haunting. Read it for Dunsany's shorter wonders, droll and eerie by turns, set down amid the Great War by a soldier who found in dreams the only things that seemed to survive.

In its time

Published in 1916, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 11 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).