The Gods of the Mountain and Other Plays by Lord Dunsany (Halcyon Classics)

THE GODS OF THE MOUNTAIN AND OTHER PLAYS includes thirteen dramatic works by noted fantasy writer and playwright Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany. An early innovator in the genre of fantasy, Lord Dunsany's works achieved critical and literary success and proved highly influential for later generations of writers. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.

• The Gods of the Mountain
• The First Act of King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior
• If
• The Compromise Of The King Of The Golden Isles
• The Flight Of The Queen
• Cheezo
• A Good Bargain
• If Shakespeare Lived To-Day
• Fame and The Poet
• The Laughter of the Gods
• The Queen's Enemies
• The Tents of the Arabs
• A Night at an Inn

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957) was a member of the Anglo-British nobility and held one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage. Lord Dunsany spent much of his life as a writer and dramatist, and was noted for his extensive writings in fantasy. More than eighty books of his work were published, including many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Dunsany influenced a number of later writers including Ursula Le Guin, Robert E. Howard, and J.R.R. Tolkien.