Lord Dunsany 1 hr 13 min read

In the morning of his two hundred and fiftieth year, Shepperalk the centaur set out, and so open the jeweled, dreamlike tales of a world of gods, thieves, and jewelers beyond the fields we know.

Lord Dunsany's 1912 collection is one of the founding masterworks of modern fantasy. Lyrical, ironic, incomparable. Read it for the wellspring of the genre, Thangobrind the Jeweller, the Hoard of the Gibbelins, and other shimmering, wry wonder-tales that shaped Tolkien, Lovecraft, and all who followed.

In its time

Published in 1912, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 13 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).