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4/5 ManyBooks Language English Media type Print (hardback) Illustrator Sidney Sime Followed by The Book of Wonder | 4.1/5 Goodreads Country UK Publication date 1910 Originally published 1910 Genre Fantasy Publisher Allen & Unwin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Preceded by The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories Similar Sidney Sime books, Works by Edward Plunkett - 18th Baron of Dunsany, Fantasy books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Dreamer's Tales is the fifth book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in September, 1910, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories as A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories in 1917.
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The book is actually Dunsany's fourth major work, as his preceding book, The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth (March, 1910), was a chapbook reprinting a single story from his earlier collection The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (October, 1908).
In common with most of Dunsany's early books, A Dreamer's Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories.