Fifty-One Tales
By Lord Dunsany
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Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) was a British writer. Born in London, Dunsany—whose name was Edward Plunkett—was raised in a prominent Anglo-Irish family alongside a younger brother. When his father died in 1899, he received the title of Lord Dunsany and moved to Dunsany Castle in 1901. He met Lady Beatrice Child Villiers two years later, and they married in 1904. They were central figures in the social spheres of Dublin and London, donating generously to the Abbey Theatre while forging friendships with W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and George William Russell. In 1905, he published The Gods of Pegāna, a collection of fantasy stories, launching his career as a leading figure in the Irish Literary Revival. Subsequent collections, such as A Dreamer’s Tales (1910) and The Book of Wonder (1912), would influence generations of writers, including J. R. R. Tolkein, Ursula K. Le Guin, and H. P. Lovecraft. In addition to his pioneering work in the fantasy and science fiction genres, Dunsany was a successful dramatist and poet. His works have been staged and adapted for theatre, radio, television, and cinema, and he was unsuccessfully nominated for the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Fifty-One Tales - Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany
Fifty-One Tales
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Table of 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
THE ASSIGNATION
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Fame singing in the highways, and trifling as she sang, with sordid adventurers, passed the poet by.
And still the poet made for her little chaplets of song, to deck her forehead in the courts of Time: and still she wore instead the worthless garlands, that boisterous citizens flung to her in the ways, made out of perishable things.
And after a while whenever these garlands died the poet came to her with his chaplets of song; and still she laughed at him and wore the worthless wreaths, though they always died at evening.
And one day in his bitterness the poet rebuked her, and said to her: Lovely Fame, even in the highways and the byways you have not foreborne to laugh and shout and jest with worthless men, and I have toiled for you and dreamed of you and you mock me and pass me by.
And Fame turned her back on him and walked away, but in departing she looked over her shoulder and smiled at him as she had not smiled before, and, almost speaking in a whisper, said:
I will meet you in the graveyard at the back of the Workhouse in a hundred years.
CHARON
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Charon leaned forward and rowed. All things were one with his weariness.
It was not with him a matter of years or of centuries, but of wide floods of time, and an old heaviness and a pain in the arms that had become for him part of the scheme that the gods had made and was of a piece with Eternity.
If the gods had even sent him a contrary wind it would have divided all time in his memory into two equal slabs.
So grey were all things always where he was that if any radiance lingered a moment among the dead, on the face of such a queen perhaps as Cleopatra, his eyes could not have perceived it.
It was strange that the dead nowadays were coming in such numbers. They were coming in thousands where they used to come in fifties. It was neither Charon's duty nor his wont to ponder in his grey soul why these things might be. Charon leaned forward and rowed.
Then no one came for a while. It was not usual for the gods to send no one down from Earth for such a space. But the gods knew best.
Then one man came alone. And the little shade sat shivering on a lonely bench and the great boat pushed off. Only one passenger: the gods knew best. And great and weary Charon rowed on and on beside the little, silent, shivering ghost.
And the sound of the river was like a mighty sigh that Grief in the beginning had sighed among her sisters, and that could not die like the echoes of human sorrow failing on earthly hills, but was as old as time and the pain in Charon's arms.
Then the boat from the slow, grey river loomed up to the coast of
Dis and the little, silent shade still shivering stepped ashore, and
Charon turned the boat to go wearily back to the world. Then the
little shadow spoke, that had been a man.
I am the last,
he said.
No one had ever made Charon smile before, no one before had ever made him weep.
THE DEATH OF PAN
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When the travellers from London entered Arcady they lamented one to another the death of Pan.
And anon they saw him lying stiff and still.
Horned Pan was