Lord Dunsany 1 hr 50 min read

In the beautiful, undefended city of Merimna, where bronze heroes stand along the great avenue and enemies still fear a valor that no longer lives, the old glory of the Sword of Welleran waits.

Lord Dunsany's 1908 collection is a foundational classic of literary fantasy. Lyrical, dreamlike, hugely influential. Read it for the pure Dunsany magic, jeweled, melancholy tales of gods, dreams, and imaginary lands, told in incomparable prose that shaped Tolkien, Lovecraft, and the entire tradition of the modern fantastic.

In its time

Published in 1908, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 50 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).