The Book of Wonder is an amazing collection of fourteen tales by one of the pioneers and masters of the fantasy genre Lord Dunsany. Strangeness and humor abound in these delightful stories that were influential to many writers including H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Fritz Leiber among others.
Tales:
01. Preface and the Bride of the Man Horse
02. Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller
03. The House of the Sphinx
04. Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men
05. The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolator
06. The Loot of Bombasharna
07. Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance
08. The Quest of the Queen's Tears
09. The Hoard of the Gibbelins
10. How Nuth would have Practised his Art Upon the Gnoles
11. How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never
12. The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap
13. Chu-Bu and Sheemish
14. The Wonderful Window and Epilogue
LibriVox Recording
Read by Sandra Cullum
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02hrs 46mins
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