The Book of Wonder av Lord Dunsany

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<p><I>The Book of Wonder</I> (1912) is a short story collection by Lord Dunsany. Published at the height of his career, <I>The Book of Wonder</I> would influence such writers as J. R. R. Tolkein, Ursula K. Le Guin, and H. P. Lovecraft. Recognized as a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction, Dunsany is a man whose work, in the words of Lovecraft, remains ¿unexcelled in the sorcery of crystalline singing prose, and supreme in the creation of a gorgeous and languorous world of incandescently exotic vision.¿ <I>The Book of Wonder</I>, Dunsany¿s fifth collection of stories, contains fourteen of his finest tales of fantasy and adventure. In ¿The Hoard of the Gibbelins,¿ originally published in London weekly <I>The Sketch</I>, is the story of Alderic, a Knight of the Order of the City. Courageous and strong, he ventures to the island realm of the Gibbelins, where a horde of treasure is rumored to be held at the base of a treacherous castle. In ¿Chu-Bu and Sheemish,¿ two idols held i