Tales of Three Hemispheres
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Author | Lord Dunsany |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy |
Publisher | John W. Luce & Co. |
Publication date | 1919 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Tales of Three Hemispheres is a collection of fantasy short stories by Lord Dunsany. The first edition was published in Boston by John W. Luce & Co. in November 1919; the first British edition was published in London by T. Fisher Unwin in June 1920.
The collection's significance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication in a new edition by Owlswick Press in 1976, with illustrations by Tim Kirk and a foreword by H. P. Lovecraft, actually a general article on Dunsany's work originally written by Lovecraft in 1922, but unpublished until it appeared in his posthumous Marginalia (Arkham House, 1944).
The book collects 14 short pieces by Dunsany; the last three, under the general heading "Beyond the Fields We Know", are related tales, as explained in the publisher's note preceding the first, "Idle Days on the Yann", which was previously published in the author's earlier collection A Dreamer's Tales, but reprinted in the current one owing to the relationship.
Contents
- "Foreword: Lord Dunsany and His Work" by H. P. Lovecraft (1976 edition only)
- "The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla"
- "How the Office of Postman Fell Vacant in Otford-under-the-Wold"
- "The Prayer of Boob Aheera"
- "East and West"
- "A Pretty Quarrel"
- "How the Gods Avenged Meoul Ki Ning"
- "The Gift of the Gods"
- "The Sack of Emeralds"
- "The Old Brown Coat"
- "An Archive of the Older Mysteries"
- "A City of Wonder"
- Beyond the Fields We Know
- "Publisher's Note"
- "First Tale: Idle Days on the Yann"
- "Second Tale: A Shop in Go-By Street"
- "Third Tale: The Avenger of Perdóndaris"
Reception
The Irish Times reviewed Tales of Three Hemispheres negatively, stating that although the stories were evocative they frequently lost their power. It described the sequels to "Idle Days on the Yann" as inferior, and "East and West" as the best story in the book.[1]
References
- ^ "Tales of Three Hemispheres". Irish Times. 16 July 1920. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
Sources
- Joshi, S. T. (1993). Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. pp. 10–11, 265.
External links
- Tales of Three Hemispheres at Project Gutenberg
- Tales of Three Hemispheres public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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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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