This is not a self-help book, or a book of specific guidance. In fact, it was written because too many works that claim to help you find your way either disappear into meaningless...
The Heads of Cerberus The Book that Created Dystopian Sci Fi
This book, set in a dystopian Philadelphia in 2118, invented a new, creepier kind of dystopian Sci Fi.Perhaps the first science fantasy to use the alternate time-track, or...
Fifty One Tales A collection of short, strange, and often dark stories from the world’s first and greatest fantasy writer
Fifty-One Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories by Irish writer Lord Dunsany, a major influence on J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. Each...
A Dreamer's Tales A collection from the world’s first modern fantasy writer, written in 1905 and an influence on everything that came after.
Lord Dunsany was the most influential writer in the genre that came to be known as fantasy, which his stories set trends for that continue to this day.Before him, the closest...
Mishkât Al-Anwar (The Niche For Lights) The classic work of Sufi mystical thinking
The classic work of Sufi mystical thinking from 1100CE, available in audiobook for the first time. It is also known as A Niche of Lamps. In the middle ages, Sufi scholars...
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories Strange Tales and Dark Wonders from the Man who Created Modern Fantasy
This was the book that launched a genre. Modern fantasy collections trace their lineage back to Lord Dunsany, and this was his first work that today's readers would recognise in...
Biggles Learns To Fly Exciting adventures in WWI as Biggles earns his wings on the front line
Includes illustrations from the original edition, as well as covers of the magazines in which the stories were first printedNowadays, planes are safe and stable machines. come now...
Zen Buddhism and Its relation to Art | The Poet Li Po Two classics of Chinese literature and study by the greatest translator of Chinese poetry
Two books by the greatest translator of Chinese poetry, Arthur Waley (1889-1966)Arthur Waley was one of the first great Orientalists, bringing translations and commentaries from...
Tales of Wonder Eighteen Magical Tales of Dreams, Destinies, Strangeness and Wonder
Written in the dark days of World War I, join Lord Dunsany as he spreads the dreams that we cannot leave to die.Dunsany was the most influential writer in the genre that came to...
Another Job For Biggles Originally published as Biggles In Arabia
An action packed adventure across Arabia in search of Gurra, the 'weed of paradise. This new drug, a thousand times stronger than hashish, has begun to spread in London, and only...
