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Time and the Gods

Lord Dunsany

Paperback | Pages: 120 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 784 Users | 55 Reviews

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ISBN:	1587157195 (ISBN13: 9781587157196)
Edition Language:	English

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Most fantasy enthusiasts consider Lord Dunsany one of the most significant forces in modern fantasy; his influences have been observed in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, and many other modern writers. Time and the Gods is Dunsany at his peak of his talent. The stories here are a lush tapestry of language, conjuring images of people, places, and things which cannot possibly exist, yet somehow ring true. Together with Dunsany's other major collections, The Book of Wonder, A Dreamer's Tales and Tales of Three Hemispheres, they are a necessary part of any fantasy collection.

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Title	:	Time and the Gods
Author	:	Lord Dunsany
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 120 pages
Published	:	September 15th 2002 by Borgo Press (first published 1906)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Mythology

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This is a good book for reading just before sleep, especially if you want to do some interesting lucid dreaming.

Inexhaustible imagination, worlds of beauty with something of the thousand and one nights and so much poetry in each story that it is necessary to stop to admire them before being able to continue reading.

Lord Dunsany is one of the most remarkable authors to have ever lived. If not in the way he wrote his prose, then in the way he lived his life as an adventure. And from this sense of adventure he developed a most remarkable perspective on the universe and fantasy. From this perspective he wrote a new mythology full of childish wonder, simplicity and also beauty. There is an aesthetic of delight to be found in Time and the Gods and it is this aesthetic which is so very appealing to read."And as a

An intriguing blend of speculative fiction and fantastical imagination. Dunsany has long been cited as an influence on numerous fantasy writers. This Victorian adventurer had an interesting and remarkable life, and this collection of fiction is reflective of that world view. It is unfortunate that the weakest stories of this collections are the first a reader encounters, because if you do not persevere, you are in danger of missing out on some great fiction. For every thirteen at table, there

Basically like The Gods of Pegana only moreso. Again, these are primarily vignettes or prose poems or fables rather than anything resembling more traditional stories -- those will start appearing in his next book, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories. Again, filled with lovely King James prose and beautiful, evocative names and again not a great jumping-in place if you've never read Dunsany before.

Short stories, set in the same world as Dunsany's (better) "Gods of Pegana", and many of his other writings. Dunsany's prose tends to the florid, as befits someone whose full appellation was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany. Shoot-the-moon sentences abound, and I suspect that few readers will be neutral -- you'll either enjoy or despise his style.Some of the stories are quite good. Here, for example, is a taste of Dunsany's prose from "In the Land of Time", where a king

What really intrigued me about this book was that I found an old copy with Beardley-esque drawings by S.H. Sime, except the drawings are even more fantasy-oriented. There are a number of tales revolving around the contested relationship between the Gods and Time. These are what Christians would call Pagan gods. You might guess who would win in the struggle between them and Time. The language is purposefully antiquated: "There nought shall hinder thee among thy dreams, for even the gods may