the library ladder | The 20th Century Renaissance Man Who Pioneered Much of the Modern Fantasy Genre @thelibraryladder | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
100 years ago, an iconoclastic British author pushed the boundaries of fantasy fiction and inspired a Who's Who of writers from different corners of the genre: from Tolkien to Lovecraft; from Robert E. Howard to Jack Vance; from Michael Moorcock to Neil Gaiman, just to name a few.

This video explores the works of Lord Dunsany and discusses what made him so influential and why he deserves to be read today.

0:01 Overview
3:14 Who was Lord Dunsany?
3:56 An unlikely writer
6:37 Literary reputation
7:42 Dunsany's style
10:05 Dunsany's themes
11:48 Early short fiction
19:24 Early novels
25:32 Jorkens tales
27:57 Later works
29:33 Dunsany's impact
31:37 Why forgotten today?
33:11 Where to find his works

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I've recorded an audiobook of Lord Dunsany's The Book of Wonder short story collection (14 stories), which is available for download at:
thelibraryladder.creator-spring.com/listing/the-book-of-wonder-by-dunsany

Two of the short stories from the audiobook can be listened to at:
youtu.be/1eLtmuoBCuI
youtu.be/BuQRlohB7NA


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Artwork credits:
Arthur Rackham
Hidehisa Miyagawa
Sidney Sime
Tano Bonfanti

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