- EAN13
- 9782385820732
- Éditeur
- Quick Read
- Date de publication
- 16/02/2024
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9782385820732
- Fichier EPUB, libre d'utilisation
- Fichier Mobipocket, libre d'utilisation
- Lecture en ligne, lecture en ligne
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Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.
This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each
chapter.
\- Reading time of the complete text: about 2 hours
\- Reading time of the summarized text: 11 minutes
The Book of Wonder is a collection of fourteen fantasy short stories by Lord
Dunsany, published in 1912. The book is considered a major influence on the
work of J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. The
author employed the talents of Sidney Sime to illustrate his fantasy short
story collections, but The Book of Wonder is unique in that Sydney Sime drew
the illustrations first, and Lord Dunsany wrote the tales to incorporate them.
Of the 14 tales, only the last two were not derived from a Sime drawing. The
short story "How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles" is likely
the origin of the term gnoll, used in a number of later works, notably the
Dungeons and Dragons gaming franchise, to describe a humanoid fantasy race.
The book has been reprinted a number of times since its first publication. The
collection includes stories such as "The Bride of the Man-Horse," "The House
of the Sphinx," and "The Hoard of the Gibbelins." The Book of Wonder is
available in the public domain as an audiobook at LibriVox and as an ebook at
Project Gutenberg.
This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each
chapter.
\- Reading time of the complete text: about 2 hours
\- Reading time of the summarized text: 11 minutes
The Book of Wonder is a collection of fourteen fantasy short stories by Lord
Dunsany, published in 1912. The book is considered a major influence on the
work of J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. The
author employed the talents of Sidney Sime to illustrate his fantasy short
story collections, but The Book of Wonder is unique in that Sydney Sime drew
the illustrations first, and Lord Dunsany wrote the tales to incorporate them.
Of the 14 tales, only the last two were not derived from a Sime drawing. The
short story "How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles" is likely
the origin of the term gnoll, used in a number of later works, notably the
Dungeons and Dragons gaming franchise, to describe a humanoid fantasy race.
The book has been reprinted a number of times since its first publication. The
collection includes stories such as "The Bride of the Man-Horse," "The House
of the Sphinx," and "The Hoard of the Gibbelins." The Book of Wonder is
available in the public domain as an audiobook at LibriVox and as an ebook at
Project Gutenberg.
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