Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay by Lord Dunsany
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Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay
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Title: Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay
Author: Lord Dunsany
Release Date: October 7, 2004 [eBook #13664]
Language: English
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Transcriber's Note:
Two names are accented with Macrons (a short horizontal bar over the letter), for which there is no ASCII character. They are usually marked as [=e], as in Argim[=e]n[=e]s. For legibility, they have been replaced here by the bare letter. To restore the original accents,
change Oonrana to Oonr[=a]na change Argimenes to Argim[=e]n[=e]s
SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF LORD DUNSANY
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CONTENTS
The Gods of the Mountain The First Act of King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior The Fall of Babbulkund The Sphinx at Gizeh Idle Days on the Yann A Miracle The Castle of Time
INTRODUCTION
I
Lady Wilde once told me that when she was a young girl she was stopped in some Dublin street by a great crowd and turned into a shop to escape from it. She stayed there some time and the crowd still passed. She asked the shopman what it was, and he said, 'the funeral of