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ISBN:	1587157195 (ISBN13: 9781587157196)
Edition Language:	English

Time and the Gods

Lord Dunsany

Paperback | Pages: 120 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 784 Users | 55 Reviews

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Most fantasy enthusiasts consider Lord Dunsany one of the most significant forces in modern fantasy; his influences have been observed in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, and many other modern writers. Time and the Gods is Dunsany at his peak of his talent. The stories here are a lush tapestry of language, conjuring images of people, places, and things which cannot possibly exist, yet somehow ring true. Together with Dunsany's other major collections, The Book of Wonder, A Dreamer's Tales and Tales of Three Hemispheres, they are a necessary part of any fantasy collection.

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Title	:	Time and the Gods
Author	:	Lord Dunsany
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 120 pages
Published	:	September 15th 2002 by Borgo Press (first published 1906)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Mythology

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Ratings: 3.88 From 784 Users | 55 Reviews

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Well, I can definitely see how Lord Dunsany influenced the future world of fantasy lit. His stories are very beautiful, but in a style that makes you dream and drift away into sleep. There isn't much consistency of characters, names of places and so on, and no background explanations are given, so when you see a lot of name-dropping (with very specific, fantasy-style names) in a text, it can be confusing. I would have loved to see past or future references to those names, but instead they make a

"Once when the Gods were young and only their swarthy servant Time was without age, the Gods lay sleeping by a broad river upon earth."This is a collection of beautiful creation myths for a fictional world. Every culture and religion has its own creation stories, and Lord Dunsany encountered many on his travels throughout the Middle East and Africa, in addition to a keen awareness of the Norse mythology which his native country Ireland adopted for centuries before conversion to Christianity.

Basically like The Gods of Pegana only moreso. Again, these are primarily vignettes or prose poems or fables rather than anything resembling more traditional stories -- those will start appearing in his next book, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories. Again, filled with lovely King James prose and beautiful, evocative names and again not a great jumping-in place if you've never read Dunsany before.

Inexhaustible imagination, worlds of beauty with something of the thousand and one nights and so much poetry in each story that it is necessary to stop to admire them before being able to continue reading.

Paradoxical tales of the gods on a world out of dreams.These were strange, oddly moving little myths of an imaginary world. Oddly moving because they were so horrific and twisted, with people longing to follow gods that laughed at their cruel deaths, that sort of thing. I got the feeling that the author hated his own creations. The openings of each of the stories was so offputting that I'd finish one and have to stop and work myself up to reading another. And the style was o thou fake

Dunsany's writing is beautiful. This is a collection of short stories and vignettes tied together by a (roughly) shared world. Reading this and his other work, one could be forgiven for thinking that all of the future of fantastic literature is contained in miniature herein.

The gods of Lord Dunsany's exquisite imagination never had it easy.First of all their 'swarthy servant' Time, destroyed their price and joy, the marble city of Sardathrion, without their knowledge. Then a new god called Slid (the seas) came down from the sky to colonize their planet and only the intervention of Tintaggon, an impenetrable black wall, saved the day.Even when they slept they weren't safe as three malign spirits called Yozis attempted to take their place in the affections of man.