The Book of Wonder

Lord Dunsany

Summary

"The Book of Wonder" by Lord Dunsany is a collection of fourteen fantasy short stories. The tales in the collection are: "Preface," "The Bride of the Man-Horse," "The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller, and of the Doom that Befell Him," "The House of the Sphinx," "The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men," "The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolator," "The Loot of Bombasharna," "Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance," "The Quest of the Queen's Tears," "The Hoard of the Gibbelins," "How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles," "How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never," "The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap," "Chu-Bu and Sheemish," "The Wonderful Window," and "Epilogue."

Available since: 11/20/2019.

Print length: 143 pages.

Contemporary Fiction

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