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Jorkens Remembers Africa

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1934

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Publisher
  
Longman

Series
  
Jorkens

Published in English
  
1934

Originally published
  
1934

Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story

Country
  
United States United Kingdom

Author
  
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany

Preceded by
  
The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens

Followed by
  
Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey

Similar
  
Works by Edward Plunkett - 18th Baron of Dunsany, Fantasy books

Jorkens Remembers Africa is a collection of fantasy short stories, narrated by Mr. Joseph Jorkens, by writer Lord Dunsany. It was first published in New York City by Longmans, Green & Co. in October, 1934, with the English edition (under the alternate title Mr. Jorkens Remembers Africa) following in November of the same year from the same publisher. It was the second collection of Dunsany's Jorkens tales to be published. It has also been issued in combination with the first book, The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens, in the omnibus edition The Collected Jorkens, Volume One, published by Night Shade Books in 2004.

The book collects twenty-one short pieces by Dunsany.

Contents

  • Preface
  • "The Lost Romance"
  • "The Curse of the Witch"
  • "The Pearly Beach"
  • "The Walk to Lingham"
  • "The Escape from the Valley"
  • "One August in the Red Sea"
  • "The Bare Truth"
  • "What Jorkens Has to Put Up With"
  • "Ozymandias"
  • "At the End of the Universe"
  • "The Black Mamba"
  • "In the Garden of Memories"
  • "The Slugly Beast"
  • "Earth's Secret"
  • "The Persian Spell"
  • "Stranger Than Fiction"
  • "The Golden Gods"
  • "The Correct Kit"
  • "How Ryan Got out of Russia"
  • "The Club Secretary"
  • "A Mystery of the East"

    • References

    Jorkens Remembers Africa Wikipedia
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