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100 1 _aDunsany, Lord,
_d1878-1957
245 1 4 _aThe Book of Wonder
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2005
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Wonder
500 _aRelease date is 2005-02-01
505 0 _aPreface -- The Bride of the Man-Horse -- Distressing Tale of Thangobrind The Jeweller -- The House of the Sphinx -- Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men -- The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater -- The Loot of Bombasharna -- Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon Of Romance -- The Quest of the Queen's Tears -- The Hoard of the Gibbelins -- How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles -- How One Came, As Was Foretold, to the City Of Never -- The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap -- Chu-Bu and Sheemish -- The Wonderful Window -- Epilogue.
508 _aProduced by Suzanne Shell, Charles Bidwell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version produced by Chuck Greif.
520 _a"The Book of Wonder" by Lord Dunsany is a fantasy short story collection published in 1912. This unique work features fourteen tales written to accompany illustrations by Sidney Sime, who drew the pictures first. The stories transport readers to Dunsany's elementary yet terrible fantasy world, filled with jewel thieves, idolators, dragons, and mysterious creatures called gnoles. These tales influenced legendary writers like Tolkien and Lovecraft, showcasing Dunsany's imaginative storytelling that bridges the fantastical with psychological complexity and connections to the real world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aFantasy fiction, English
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7477
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