Download or read book The King of Elfland s Daughter written by Edward 18th Baron of Dunsany Plunkett and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The King of Elfland's Daughter" by Edward 18th Baron of Dunsany Plunkett. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book The King of Elfland s Daughter written by Lord Dunsany and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-03T18:35:30Z with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of the obscure village Erl demand to be ruled by a magic lord, so their ruler sends his son Alveric to Elfland to wed the elfin princess Lirazel. He brings her back to Erl and the couple have a son, but Lirazel has trouble integrating with human society. When a scheme by her father spirits her away and Elfland vanishes, Alveric begins a mad quest to find where Elfland went. The King of Elfland’s Daughter is written in the pseudo-archaic prose style for which Dunsany is known. Some contemporaries thought the style did not suit a novel-length work, but contemporary Irish writer George Russell called the book “the most purely beautiful thing Lord Dunsany has written.” The book touches on a range of themes, including the longing for fantastical things lost, the perception of time, sanity and madness, the fear of the unknown, and being careful what you wish for. Large passages are also devoted to hunting; the original edition even featured an illustration of a unicorn hunt opposite the title page. Neil Gaiman wrote an introduction to the 1999 edition, and Christopher Lee was a featured vocalist on a 1977 progressive rock album based on the book. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Download or read book The King of Elfland s Daughter written by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men of Erl desire to be "ruled by a magic lord," and the lord's heir, Alveric, ventures into Elfland to win the king's daughter, Lirazel.

Download or read book The Ship of Ishtar written by Abraham Merritt and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archaeologist hero, Kenton, receives a mysterious ancient Babylonian artifact, which he discovers contains an incredibly detailed model of a ship. A dizzy spell casts Kenton onto the deck of the ship, which becomes a full-sized vessel sailing an eternal sea. The appearance of Kenton is unexpected for the inhabitants of the ship and amazing adventures ensue…

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Download or read book The Selected Works of Andrew Lang written by Andrew Lang and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 18996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the learned first gave serious attention to popular ballads, from the time of Percy to that of Scott, they laboured under certain disabilities. The Comparative Method was scarcely understood, and was little practised. Editors were content to study the ballads of their own countryside, or, at most, of Great Britain. Teutonic and Northern parallels to our ballads were then adduced, as by Scott and Jamieson. It was later that the ballads of Europe, from the Faroes to Modern Greece, were compared with our own, with EuropeanMärchen, or children’s tales, and with the popular songs, dances, and traditions of classical and savage peoples. The results of this more recent comparison may be briefly stated. Poetry begins, as Aristotle says, in improvisation. Every man is his own poet, and, in moments of stronge motion, expresses himself in song. A typical example is the Song of Lamech in Genesis—“I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt.” Instances perpetually occur in the Sagas: Grettir, Egil, Skarphedin, are always singing. In Kidnapped, Mr. Stevenson introduces “The Song of the Sword of Alan,” a fine example of Celtic practice: words and air are beaten out together, in the heat of victory. In the same way, the women sang improvised dirges, like Helen; lullabies, like the lullaby of Danae in Simonides, and flower songs, as in modern Italy. Every function of life, war, agriculture, the chase, had its appropriate magical and mimetic dance and song, as in Finland, among Red Indians, and among Australian blacks. “The deeds of men” were chanted by heroes, as by Achilles; stories were told in alternate verse and prose; girls, like Homer’s Nausicaa, accompanied dance and ball play, priests and medicine-men accompanied rites and magical ceremonies by songs. These practices are world-wide, and world-old. The thoroughly popular songs, thus evolved, became the rude material of a professional class of minstrels, when these arose, as in the heroic age of Greece. A minstrel might be attached to a Court, or a noble; or he might go wandering with song and harp among the people. In either case, this class of men developed more regular and ample measures. They evolved the hexameter; the laisse of the Chansons de Geste; the strange technicalities of Scandinavian poetry; the metres of Vedic hymns; the choral odes of Greece. The narrative popular chant became in their hands the Epic, or the mediaeval rhymed romance. The metre of improvised verse changed into the artistic lyric. These lyric forms were fixed, in many cases, by the art of writing. But poetry did not remain solely in professional and literary hands. The mediaeval minstrels and jongleurs (who may best be studied in Léon Gautier’s Introduction to his Epopées Françaises) sang in Court and Camp. The poorer, less regular brethren of the art, harped and played conjuring tricks, in farm and grange, or at street corners. The foreign newer metres took the place of the old alliterative English verse. But unprofessional men and women did not cease to make and sing.

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Download or read book The Life and Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred lord Tennyson a memoir by his son incl correspondence written by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Tribe of John written by Susan M. Schultz and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1995-05-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Electronic Poetry Center (EPC) of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo presents selections from "Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry." The book highlights the poetry of American poet and writer John Ashbery (1927- ). EPC offers the text of the introduction and afterword, as well as the table of contents.

Download or read book The Classic Collection of Fantasy 45 novels stories and poems Illustrated written by J. R. R. Tolkien and published by Andrii Ponomarenko. This book was released on 2024-10-24 with total page 4463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Classic Collection of Fantasy" is a comprehensive anthology featuring 45 novels, stories, and poems from the realm of fantasy literature. This illustrious collection includes iconic works such as "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis, "Conan the Barbarian" by Robert E. Howard, "The Princess and the Goblin" by George MacDonald, and many more. Readers will be transported to fantastical realms filled with epic quests, mythical creatures, and magical adventures as they journey through the pages of this anthology. From the sweeping landscapes of Middle-earth to the enchanted land of Narnia, each story offers a unique and captivating glimpse into the boundless imagination of the fantasy genre. Illustrated with enchanting artwork that brings the fantastical worlds and characters to life, this collection is a treasure trove for fans of fantasy literature. Whether rediscovering beloved classics or diving into new and exciting tales, readers of all ages will find themselves enthralled by the timeless magic and wonder of "The Classic Collection of Fantasy." Contents: J. R. R. Tolkien • The Hobbit • The Fellowship of the Ring • The Two Towers • The Return of the King • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil C. S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe • Prince Caspian • The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’ • The Silver Chair • The Horse and His Boy • The Magician’s Nephew • The Last Battle William Morris • The Wood Beyond the World • The Story of the Volsungs James Branch Cabell Jurgen A Comedy of Justice Robert E. Howard Conan the Barbarian • The Phoenix on the Sword • The Scarlet Citadel • The Tower of the Elephant • Black Colossus • The Slithering Shadow • The Pool of the Black One • Rogues in the House George MacDonald The Princess and the Goblin Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Charles Kingsley The Water-Babies Lord Dunsany • The King of Elfland's Daughter • The Gods of Pegāna • The Book of Wonder

Download or read book Essential Novelists Lord Dunsany written by Lord Dunsany and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Lord Dunsanywhich are The King of Elfland's Daughterand Don Rodriguez - Chronicles of Shadow Valley. Edward Plunkett,18th Baron of Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than ninety books of his work were published in his lifetime, and both original work and compilations have continued to appear. Dunsany's uvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as plays, novels and essays Novels selected for this book: -The King of Elfland's Daughter -Don Rodriguez - Chronicles of Shadow Valley This is one of many books in the seriesEssential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

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Download or read book Fantasies of Time and Death written by Anna Vaninskaya and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy—Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkien—to our culture’s perennial reassessment of the meanings of time, death and eternity. It traces the poetic, philosophical and theological roots of the striking preoccupation with mortality and temporality that defines the imagined worlds of early fantasy fiction, and gives both the form of such fiction and its ideas the attention they deserve. Dunsany, Eddison and Tolkien raise some of the oldest questions in existence: about the limits of nature, human and divine; cosmic creation and destruction; the immortality conferred by art and memory; and the paradoxes and uncertainties generated by the universal experience of transience, the fear of annihilation and the desire for transcendence. But they respond to those questions by means of thought experiments that have no precedent in modern literary history. This book has won the '2021 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award' for Myth and Fantasy Studies.

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