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Title page COPYRIGHT The Novel DON RODRIGUEZ: CHRONICLES OF SHADOW VALLEY

CONTENTS THE FIRST CHRONICLE THE SECOND CHRONICLE THE THIRD CHRONICLE THE FOURTH CHRONICLE THE FIFTH CHRONICLE THE SIXTH CHRONICLE THE SEVENTH CHRONICLE THE EIGHTH CHRONICLE THE NINTH CHRONICLE THE TENTH CHRONICLE THE ELEVENTH CHRONICLE THE TWELFTH CHRONICLE

Other Short Story Collections THE GODS OF PEGANA

CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION OF SKARL THE DRUMMER OF THE MAKING OF THE WORLDS OF THE GAME OF THE GODS THE CHAUNT OF THE GODS THE SAYINGS OF KIB CONCERNING SISH THE SAYINGS OF SLID THE DEEDS OF MUNG THE CHAUNT OF THE PRIESTS THE SAYINGS OF LIMPANG-TUNG OF YOHARNETH-LAHAI OF ROON, THE GOD OF GOING, AND THE THOUSAND HOME GODS THE REVOLT OF THE HOME GODS OF DOROZHAND THE EYE IN THE WASTE OF THE THING THAT IS NEITHER GOD NOR BEAST YONATH THE PROPHET YUG THE PROPHET ALHIRETH-HOTEP THE PROPHET KABOK THE PROPHET OF THE CALAMITY THAT BEFEL YUN-ILARA BY THE SEA, AND OF THE BUILDING OF THE TOWER OF THE ENDING OF DAYS OF HOW THE GODS WHELMED SIDITH OF HOW IMBAUN BECAME HIGH PROPHET IN ARADEC OF ALL THE GODS SAVE ONE OF HOW IMBAUN MET ZODRAK PEGANA THE SAYINGS OF IMBAUN OF HOW IMBAUN SPAKE OF DEATH TO THE KING OF OOD THE RIVER THE BIRD OF DOOM AND THE END

TIME AND THE GODS

CONTENTS PREFACE PART I. TIME AND THE GODS THE COMING OF THE SEA A LEGEND OF THE DAWN THE VENGEANCE OF MEN WHEN THE GODS SLEPT THE KING THAT WAS NOT THE CAVE OF KAI THE SORROW OF SEARCH THE MEN OF YARNITH FOR THE HONOUR OF THE GODS NIGHT AND MORNING USURY MLIDEEN THE SECRET OF THE GODS THE SOUTH WIND IN THE LAND OF TIME THE RELENTING OF SARNIDAC THE JEST OF THE GODS THE DREAMS OF THE PROPHET PART II. THE JOURNEY OF THE KING

THE SWORD OF WELLERAN AND OTHER STORIES

CONTENTS DEDICATED THE SWORD OF WELLERAN THE FALL OF BABBULKUND THE KITH OF THE ELF FOLK Chapter I Chapter II THE HIGHWAYMEN IN THE TWILIGHT THE GHOSTS THE WHIRLPOOL THE HURRICANE THE FORTRESS UNVANQUISHABLE, SAVE FOR SACNOTH THE LORD OF CITIES THE DOOM OF LA TRAVIATA ON THE DRY LAND

A DREAMER’S TALES

CONTENTS PREFACE POLTARNEES, BEHOLDER OF OCEAN BLAGDAROSS THE MADNESS OF ANDELSPRUTZ WHERE THE TIDES EBB AND FLOW BETHMOORA IDLE DAYS ON THE YANN THE SWORD AND THE IDOL THE IDLE CITY THE HASHISH MAN POOR OLD BILL THE BEGGARS CARCASSONNE IN ZACCARATH THE FIELD THE DAY OF THE POLL THE UNHAPPY BODY

THE BOOK OF WONDER

CONTENTS PREFACE THE BRIDE OF THE MAN-HORSE DISTRESSING TALE OF THANGOBRIND THE JEWELLER THE HOUSE OF THE SPHINX PROBABLE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE LITERARY MEN THE INJUDICIOUS PRAYERS OF POMBO THE IDOLATER 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

FIFTY-ONE TALES

CONTENTS THE ASSIGNATION CHARON THE DEATH OF PAN THE SPHINX AT GIZEH THE HEN WIND AND FOG THE RAFT-BUILDERS THE WORKMAN THE GUEST DEATH AND ODYSSEUS DEATH AND THE ORANGE THE PRAYER OF THE FLOWERS TIME AND THE TRADESMAN THE LITTLE CITY THE UNPASTURABLE FIELDS THE WORM AND THE ANGEL THE SONGLESS COUNTRY THE LATEST THING THE DEMAGOGUE AND THE DEMI-MONDE THE GIANT POPPY ROSES THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN EAR-RINGS THE DREAM OF KING KARNA-VOOTRA THE STORM A MISTAKEN IDENTITY THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE ALONE THE IMMORTALS A MORAL LITTLE TALE THE RETURN OF SONG SPRING IN TOWN HOW THE ENEMY CAME TO THLUNRANA A LOSING GAME TAKING UP PICADILLY AFTER THE FIRE THE CITY THE FOOD OF DEATH THE LONELY IDOL THE SPHINX IN THEBES (MASSACHUSETTS) THE REWARD THE TROUBLE IN LEAFY GREEN STREET THE MIST FURROW-MAKER LOBSTER SALAD THE RETURN OF THE EXILES NATURE AND TIME THE SONG OF THE BLACKBIRD THE MESSENGERS THE THREE TALL SONS COMPROMISE WHAT WE HAVE COME TO THE TOMB OF PAN

TALES OF WONDER

CONTENTS Preface A Tale of London Thirteen at Table The City on Mallington Moor Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn The Bad Old Woman in Black The Bird of the Difficult Eye The Long Porter’s Tale The Loot of Loma The Secret of the Sea How Ali Came to the Black Country The Bureau d’Echange de Maux A Story of Land and Sea Guarantee To The Reader A Tale of the Equator A Narrow Escape The Watch-tower How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None’s Desire The Three Sailors’ Gambit The Exiles Club The Three Infernal Jokes

TALES OF WAR

CONTENTS The Prayer of the Men of Daleswood The Road An Imperial Monument A Walk to the Trenches A Walk in Picardy What Happened on the Night of the Twenty-Seventh Standing To The Splendid Traveller Shells Two Degrees of Envy The Master of No Man’s Land Weeds and Wire Spring in England and Flanders The Nightmare Countries Spring and the Kaiser Two Songs The Punishment The English Spirit The Last Mirage A Famous Man The Oases of Death Anglo-Saxon Tyranny Memories The Movement Nature’s Cad The Home of Herr Schnitzelhaaser A Deed of Mercy Last Scene of All Old England

UNHAPPY FAR-OFF THINGS

CONTENTS Preface The Cathedral Of Arras A Good War The House With Two Storeys Bermondsey versus Wurtemburg On An Old Battle-Field The Real Thing A Garden Of Arras After Hell A Happy Valley In Bethune In An Old Drawing-Room The Homes Of Arras

TALES OF THREE HEMISPHERES

CONTENTS THE LAST DREAM OF BWONA KHUBLA HOW THE OFFICE OF POSTMAN FELL VACANT IN OTFORD-UNDER-THE-WOLD THE PRAYER OF BOOB AHEERA EAST AND WEST A PRETTY QUARREL HOW THE GODS AVENGED MEOUL KI NING THE GIFT OF THE GODS THE SACK OF EMERALDS THE OLD BROWN COAT AN ARCHIVE OF THE OLDER MYSTERIES A CITY OF WONDER PUBLISHER’S NOTE IDLE DAYS ON THE YANN A SHOP IN GO-BY STREET THE AVENGER OF PERDÓNDARIS

The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Plays FIVE PLAYS

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE GODS OF THE MOUNTAIN THE FIRST ACT THE SECOND ACT THE THIRD ACT THE GOLDEN DOOM PERSONS KING ARGIMĒNĒS AND THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR THE FIRST ACT THE SECOND ACT THE GLITTERING GATE THE GLITTERING GATE THE LOST SILK HAT PERSONS THE LOST SILK HAT

PLAYS OF GODS AND MEN

CONTENTS Preface The Laughter of the Gods Dramatis Personæ Act I Act II Act III The Queen’s Enemies Dramatis Personæ The Queen’s Enemies The Tents of the Arabs Dramatis Personæ Act I Act II A Night at an Inn Dramatis Personæ A Night at an Inn

CONTENTS ACT I SCENE 1 SCENE 2 SCENE 3 SCENE 4 ACT II SCENE ACT III SCENE 1 SCENE 2 SCENE 3 ACT IV SCENE 1 SCENE 2

The Poetry Collection FIFTY POEMS

CONTENTS NOTE. ART AND LIFE THE HUNTER DREAMS IN HIS CLUB A SONG OF WANDERING EVENING IN AFRICA NIGHT ODE TO A DUBLIN CRITIC IN THE SAHARA UNDER MOUNT MONADNOCK THE TRAVELLER SONGS FROM AN EVIL WOOD THE MEMORIAL A DIRGE OF VICTORY TO THE FALLEN IRISH SOLDIERS THE RIDERS THE WATCHERS THE ENCHANTED PEOPLE LADY BLAYN INSCRIBED IN A COPY OF “FIVE PLAYS” INSCRIBED IN A COPY OF “THE KING OF ELFLAND’S DAUGHTER” AT THE TIME OF THE FULL MOON THE HAPPY ISLES NEMESIS A HETERODOXY A MOMENT ON A PORTRAIT TO A COFFIN FROM UR IN AN OLD LAND AFFAIRS TO KEATS THE FORSAKEN WINDMILL TO THOSE THAT COME AFTER IN WILD-ROSE GARDEN WAITING A CALL TO THE WILD IN A YORKSHIRE VALLEY SNOW ON THE EAST WIND A WORD IN SEASON THE WORM AND THE STAR AL SHALDOMIR THE SONG OF THE IRIS MARSHES A BALLADE OF THE LAST NIGHT THE STATUE IN THE SILENCE THE INSPIRATION THE LOST TRICK RAW MATERIAL THE QUEST THE CALL THE DESERTED KINGDOM

The Non-Fiction NOWADAYS The Autobiographies WHILE THE SIRENS SLEPT

CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXI CHAPTER XXXII CHAPTER XXXIII

THE SIRENS WAKE

The Biography DUNSANY THE DRAMATIST by Edward Hale Bierstadt

CONTENTS PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I. THE MAN II. HIS WORK THE GLITTERING GATE KING ARGIMENES AND THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR THE GODS OF THE MOUNTAIN THE GOLDEN DOOM THE LOST SILK HAT A NIGHT AT AN INN THE QUEEN’S ENEMIES THE TENTS OF THE ARABS THE TALES III. HIS PHILOSOPHY IV. LETTERS APPENDICES APPENDIX I. APPENDIX II.

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