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Plays of Near & Far, by Lord Dunsany
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Title: Plays of Near & Far
Author: Lord Dunsany
Release Date: September 27, 2006 [EBook #19393]
Language: English
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Plays of Near & Far
By
LORD DUNSANY
G. P. Putnam's Sons London & New York
MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN
First printed December, 1922
Limited Edition: Five Hundred Copies only
Printed by the BOTOLPH PRINTING WORKS GATE ST., KINGSWAY, W.C.2
By LORD DUNSANY
THE GODS OF PEGANA TIME AND THE GODS THE SWORD OF WELLERAN A DREAMER'S TALES THE BOOK OF WONDER FIVE PLAYS FIFTY-ONE TALES TALES OF WONDER PLAYS OF GODS AND MEN TALES OF WAR UNHAPPY FAR-OFF THINGS TALES OF THREE HEMISPHERES IF THE CHRONICLES OF RODRIGUEZ
PREFACE
Believing plays to be solely for the stage, I have never before allowed any of mine to be printed until they had first faced from a stage the judgment of an audience, to see if they were entitled to be called plays at all. A successful production also has been sometimes a moral support to me when some critic has said, as for instance of "A Night at