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Fifty-One Tales

Lord Dunsany

Short storiesabout 1 h 45 min of listening

A series of otherworldly short stories ranging from the moral to the whimsical.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. The Assignation
  3. Charon
  4. The Death of Pan
  5. The Sphinx at Giza
  6. The Hen
  7. Wind and Fog
  8. The Raft-Builders
  9. The Workman
  10. The Guest
  11. Death and Odysseus
  12. Death and the Orange
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  1. The Prayer of the Flowers
  2. Time and the Tradesman
  3. The Little City
  4. The Unpasturable Fields
  5. The Worm and the Angel
  6. The Songless Country
  7. The Latest Thing
  8. The Demagogue and the Demimonde
  9. The Giant Poppy
  10. Roses
  11. The Man with the Golden Earrings
  12. The Dream of King Karna-Vootra
  13. The Storm
  14. A Mistaken Identity
  15. The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise
  16. Alone the Immortals
  17. A Moral Little Tale
  18. The Return of Song
  19. Spring in Town
  20. How the Enemy Came to Thlūnrāna
  21. A Losing Game
  22. Taking Up Picadilly
  23. After the Fire
  24. The City
  25. The Food of Death
  26. The Lonely Idol
  27. The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)
  28. The Reward
  29. The Trouble in Leafy Green Street
  30. The Mist
  31. Furrow-Maker
  32. Lobster Salad
  33. The Return of the Exiles
  34. Nature and Time
  35. The Song of the Blackbird
  36. The Messengers
  37. The Three Tall Sons
  38. Compromise
  39. What We Have Come To
  40. The Tomb of Pan
  41. The Poet Speaks with Earth
  42. Endnotes
  43. Colophon
  44. Uncopyright

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Source: Standard Ebooks. CC0 1.0 (Standard Ebooks edition); the text is in the public domain

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