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The Book of Wonder (Fantasy Classics)

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How well do you know your gaming roots?

Many of the older gamers among us can recall reading Howard, Lieber, or Tolkien, but how many harken back to the tales of Lord Dunsany's The Book of Wonder? Now is your chance to catch up with this Fantasy Classic in PDF (eBook) format. Inside are such classic short stories as...

The Bride of the Man-Horse

Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller

The House of the Sphinx

Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men

The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater

The Loot of Bombasharna

Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance

The Quest of the Queen's Tears

The Hoard of the Gibbelins

How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles

How One Came, As Was Foretold, to the City of Never

The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap

Chu-Bu and Sheemish

The Wonderful Window

There's more than a few surprises and familiar faces to be found. Enjoy!

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June 26th, 2013
What a delight to discover this gem, republished from 1912, at last! I've been waiting forty years to learn more of the Gibbelins and Gnoles, after first learning of them in Idris Seabright's short story "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles", [...]
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September 6th, 2011
Still a classic after all these years. Download it just for the inspiration if for no other reason. [...]
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May 22nd, 2011
I thoguht this sounded interresting, and I was right. I did not read all the stories. But, I did read the very last one "The Wonderful Window". Enjoyed it very much so. Quick read short stories, most a page or two. [...]
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January 30th, 2010
If you're looking for a book with "fairytale endings", this isn't it. It's an interesting book, but most of the short stories are written without an obvious end. "The Quest of the Queen's Tears" is typical of these stories; if you [...]
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December 1st, 2009
For this price you can read for yourself and then keep or discard. 5 stars for the price. [...]
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46
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1.0
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File Last Updated:
September 02, 2005
This title was added to our catalog on September 02, 2005.