Lord Dunsany – författare

Dreamworlds, magic; faerie - an entrancing collection from 'One of the greatest writers of this century' Arthur C ClarkeOf all the weavers of magic, there is none like Lord Dunsany. During his long lifetime he wrote more than sixty books including novels, plays, poetry collections most memorably, innumerable exotic and fantastical short stories.Here is the very best of Dunsany's extraordinarily evocative tales of Faerie, of dreamworlds and of magic. Considered a major influence on J R R Tolkien and Ursula Le Guin, these are some of the most beguiling fantasies in the English language, including the complete contents of Time and the Gods, The Book of Wonder, The Sword of Welleran and The Last Book of Wonder.'To the truly imaginative he is a talisman and a key unlocking rich storehouses of dreams' H P Lovecraft

"Sorglösa dagar på Yann och andra fantastiska berättelser" innehåller ett fylligt urval av Dunsanys berättelser från världens ände - en plats där drömmar är verkligare än vaka, där allt är möjligt och det otroliga ständigt överrumplar det vardagliga. Denna samling erbjuder några av hans vackraste och mest fantastiska noveller, vilka spänner över närmare 50 års författarskap. För första gången i svensk översättning presenteras odödliga fantasy-klassiker som "Sorglösa dagar på Yann", "Babbulkunds fall", "Wellerans svärd", "Älvfolkets vänner", "En butik på Gåförbigatan", "Carcassonne" och många fler. Hela 30 noveller av mannen som inspirerade J.R.R. Tolkien, Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Branch Cabell och Jorge Luis Borges för att nämna några. Denna bok innehåller dessutom ett initierat förord av Dunsany-kännaren Martin Andersson och en efterskrift av ingen mindre än H. P. Lovecraft: "Lord Dunsany och hans verk", som också härmed publiceras i svensk översättning för första gången. Med andra ord är detta den definitiva volymen för alla som älskar fantasy i allmänhet och Dunsany i synnerhet, och en guldgruva för dem som vill utforska genrens rötter.

The classic humorous novel about an alcohol-loving clergyman who thinks he is the reincarnation of a dog. Complete with the award-winning film screenplay that expands upon the tale.Dean Spanley is affable, conventional and prudent – the very archetype of a bland churchman. Only his keen interest in the transmigration of souls and his obsession with dogs betray any shadow of eccentricity.But then, richly primed with a few glasses of Imperial Tokay, he begins to speak vividly of the joys of rabbiting, of rolling in fresh dung and of baying at the moon. Are these canine memories a drunken fancy? Or can it be that Dean Spanley must once have been a dog?This special edition includes Lord Dunsany’s witty and inventive novel, My Talks With Dean Spanley, together with Alan Sharp’s award-winning screenplay for the film starring Peter O’Toole and Sam Neill, which faithfully adapts and expands upon the events in the story.

Lord Dunsany mixes reality with fantasy in this forgotten collection of modern detective stories. Some are macabre, others have a lighter and more amusing touch, but every story stimulates the imagination and reveals the acknowledged master of the short story at his very best.SMETHERS is a travelling salesman for Numnumo, who make a relish for meats and savouries. He shares a flat with an Oxford graduate called Linley, who fancies himself as a detective and to whom Scotland Yard is inclined to turn if they encounter a particularly challenging mystery. When a pretty young girl disappears and her lodger is suspected of murdering her, two bottles of Numnumo relish are the only clues, and Smethers is sent to gather more information . . .Amongst the hundreds of fantasy stories for which the Irish dramatist, poet and writer Lord Dunsany became deservedly famous there was one solitary little book of detective stories. Selected by Ellery Queen as an ‘unequivocal keystone’ in the history of crime writing, this quirky collection is a mixture of the masterful and the macabre, a book that lovers of detective stories and tales of the unexpected will want to savour.