The Book of Wonder
A Chronicle of Little Adventures at the Edge of the World
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Average rating3.3
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A Chronicle of Little Adventures at the Edge of the World
Ratings4
Average rating3.3
The Book of Wonder is one of Lord Dunsany’s many collections of fantasy short stories. While many of his collections were illustrated, this particular one is different—the illustrations were completed first. Dunsany then used the illustrations as inspirations for the stories around them.
This collection features fourteen short stories, all of them whimsical, imaginative, and deeply strange. Dunsany writes stories that don’t always have a happy ending, and these are no exception—though they’re written in an almost fairytale or allegorical style, they each have a melancholy, vengeful, or even mad edge to them.
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This was my introduction to Lord Dunsany's writing which probably wasn't the best place to start. Many of these stories were quite odd and ended abruptly with seemingly no satisfying conclusion. There were only 3 that I enjoyed out of the 14 or 15 total stories. I'll be continuing to read Lord Dunsay's works since I'm pretty sure they can only go up from here.
