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The Start Lord Dunsany Super Pack

Author : Lord Dunsany

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 1430 pages

File Size : 49,20 MB

Release : 2015-08-24

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1681463377

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Collected here in this giant omnibus edition are twelve of Lord Dunsany's greatest books including 'The Gods of Pegana', 'Time and the Gods', 'The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories', 'A Dreamer's Tales', 'The Book of Wonder', 'Fifty-One Tales', 'The Last Book of Wonder', 'Tales of Three Hemispheres', 'Tales of War', 'Unhappy Far-Off Things', 'Plays of Gods and Men', 'Don Rodriguez Chronicles of Shadow Valley'. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett was the 18th Baron of Dunsany, better known as Lord Dunsany. He began writing fantasy in the 1890s and helped shape modern fantasy. Authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Michael Moorcock, and Neil Gaiman all owe a deep debt to Dunsany's work.



Start's F. Scott Fitzgerald Super Pack

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 774 pages

File Size : 15,8 MB

Release : 2020-04-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1952438195

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of America’s greatest writers. No other writer is more closely associated with the roaring twenties and all of its excesses. Collected here in this omnibus edition are two novels and three short story collections for more than 400,000 words of some of the finest fiction ever written in the English language. This edition has 10 illustrations selected to enhance the reading experience. Included in this omnibus edition are: This Side of Paradise The Offshore Pirate The Ice Palace Head and Shoulders The Cut-Glass Bowl Bernice Bobs Her Hair Benediction Dalyrimple Goes Wrong The Four Fists The Beautiful and Damned The Jelly-Bean The Camel’s Back May Day Porcelain and Pink The Diamond as Big as the Ritz The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Tarquin of Cheapside “O Russet Witch!” The Lees of Happiness Mr. Icky Jemina, the Mountain Girl Sentiment—and the Use of Rouge The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw A Luckless Santa Claus Myra Meets His Family Winter Dreams Two for a Cent The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage Reade, Substitute Right Half A Debt of Honor The Room with the Green Blinds Pain and the Scientist The Trail of the Duke Shadow Laurels The Ordeal The Débutante (A One-Act Play) The Smilers The Popular Girl The Staying Up All Night Princeton—The Last Day Marching Streets



The Vortex Blaster

Author : E. E. "Doc" Smith

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 43,25 MB

Release : 2023-10-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1649742312

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Neal "Storm" Cloud failed his Lensman exam, But life has a strange way of making heroes of even those who sometimes fail. Cloud's family is tragically killed when a misguided attempt to blow out a vortex lands one of the fragments right on his house. Devastated by the loss of his family, Cloud takes a leave of absence from the Radiation Lab where he works studying the vortices. As he drives he is struck with an idea for "blowing out" a vortex. It is slightly technical (Smith explains it so it can be easily followed), but the general idea is that Cloud's brain works so fast that he can calculate exactly where the center of the vortex will be at a moment in time and how big an explosive is needed, then hit it with a bomb that is set at the exact strength to actually extinguish the vortex instead of blowing it apart and making more vortices. As it continues the book tells of Cloud's new job as the universe's one and only vortex blaster. This job takes him from planet to planet where he blows out vortices, matches wits against drug dealers and gangsters, meets new life forms, and acquires a crew for his small scout ship. His adventures are many and varied, and the lifeforms he meets are strange and interesting.



A Story of Land and Sea

Author : Lord Dunsany

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 31 pages

File Size : 18,39 MB

Release : 2015-08-24

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1681463105

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It was not age that caused him to leave his romantic profession; nor unworthiness of its traditions, nor gun-shot wound, nor drink; but grim necessity and force majeure. Five navies were after him. How he gave them the slip one day in the Mediterranean, how he fought with the Arabs, how a ship's broadside was heard in Lat. 23 N. Long. 4 E. for the first time and the last, with other things unknown to Admiralties, I shall proceed to tell.



Tales of Wonder

Author : Lord Dunsany

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 122 pages

File Size : 19,80 MB

Release : 2014-06-13

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 163355340X

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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 (audiobook) The Bureau d'Echange de Maux A Story of Land and Sea 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



Idle Days on the Yann

Author : Lord Dunsany

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 24 pages

File Size : 11,99 MB

Release : 2015-08-24

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1681463156

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So I came down through the wood on the bank of Yann and found, as had been prophesied, the ship Bird of the River about to loose her cable. The captain sat cross-legged upon the white deck with his scimitar lying beside him in its jeweled scabbard, and the sailors toiled to spread the nimble sails to bring the ship into the central stream of Yann, and all the while sang ancient soothing songs. And the wind of the evening descending cool from the snowfields of some mountainous abode of distant gods came suddenly, like glad tidings to an anxious city, into the wing-like sails.



The Queen's Enemies

Author : Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany

Publisher :

Page : 52 pages

File Size : 38,92 MB

Release : 1918

Category : Queens

ISBN :

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Tales of Three Hemispheres

Author : Lord Dunsany

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 152 pages

File Size : 45,50 MB

Release : 2018-10-28

Category :

ISBN : 9781729590331

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ales of Three Hemispheres is a collection of fantasy short stories by Lord Dunsany. The first edition was published in Boston by John W. Luce & Co. in November, 1919; the first British edition was published in London by T. Fisher Unwin in June, 1920. The collection's significance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication in a new edition by Owlswick Press in 1976, with illustrations by Tim Kirk and a foreword by H. P. Lovecraft, actually a general article on Dunsany's work originally written by Lovecraft in 1922, but unpublished until it appeared in his posthumous Marginalia (Arkham House, 1944). The book collects 14 short pieces by Dunsany; the last three, under the general heading "Beyond the Fields We Know," are related tales, as explained in the publisher's note preceding the first, "Idle Days on the Yann," which was previously published in the author's earlier collection A Dreamer's Tales, but reprinted in the current one owing to the relationship.



The Gods of Pegana

Author : Lord Dunsany

Publisher :

Page : 142 pages

File Size : 44,67 MB

Release : 1905

Category : English essays

ISBN :

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Time and the Gods Illustrated

Author : Lord Dunsany

Publisher :

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 42,26 MB

Release : 2021-01-02

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ISBN :

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Time and the Gods is the second book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others.The book was first published in hardcover by William Heinemann in September, 1906, and has been reprinted a number of times since. It was issued by the Modern Library in an unauthorised combined edition with The Book of Wonder under the latter's title in 1918.