The Man Who Ate the Phoenix
Book by Lord Dunsany (1949)
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Author | Lord Dunsany |
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Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy |
Publisher | Jarrolds |
Publication date | 1949 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
The Man Who Ate the Phoenix is a collection of fantasy short stories by Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany. The first edition was published in London by Jarrolds in December 1949.
The book collects 41 short pieces by Dunsany.
Contents
- "The Man Who Ate the Phoenix"
- "The Widow Flynn's Apple Tree"
- "Where Everyone's Business is Known"
- "The Rose By-pass"
- "An Old Man's Tale"
- "How the Tinker Came to Skavangur"
- "The Opal Arrow-Head"
- "The Sultan's Pet"
- "The Descent of the Sultan of Khash"
- "The Policeman's Prophecy"
- "The Wind in the Wood"
- "The Tiger's Skin"
- "The Finding of Mr. Jupkens"
- "The Awful Dream"
- "Mrs. Mulger"
- "The Choice"
- "Rose Tibbets"
- "Little Snow White Up to Date"
- "The Return"
- "The Mad Ghost"
- "The Cause"
- "The Cut"
- "The Sleuthing of Lily Bostum"
- "The Possibility of Life on the Third Planet"
- "Old Emma"
- "How Abdul Din Saved Justice"
- "The First Watch-Dog"
- "The Chess-Player, the Financier, and Another"
- "The Honorary Member"
- "The Experiment"
- "Down among the Kingcups"
- "The Gratitude of the Devil"
- "The After-Dinner Speech"
- "The Je-ne-sais-quoi"
- "Poseidon"
- "A Near Thing"
- "Ardor Canis"
- "A Lapse of Memory"
- "Forty Years On"
- "The Iron Door"
- "The Great Scoop"
References
- Joshi, S. T. (1993). Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 27.
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collections
- The Gods of Pegāna
- 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
- The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens
- Jorkens Remembers Africa
- Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey
- The Fourth Book of Jorkens
- The Man Who Ate the Phoenix
- The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories
- Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey
- The Last Book of Jorkens
collections
- At the Edge of the World
- Beyond the Fields We Know
- Over the Hills and Far Away
- The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms
- Time and the Gods
- The Collected Jorkens
- In the Land of Time, and Other Fantasy Tales
- Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley
- The King of Elfland's Daughter
- The Charwoman's Shadow
- The Curse of the Wise Woman
- Sidney Sime (preferred artist)
- John Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany (father)
- Reginald Drax (brother)
- Dunsany Castle
- Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany (grandson and literary heir)
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