THE DEMAGOGUE AND THE DEMI-MONDE THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN EAR-RINGS THE DREAM OF KING KARNA-VOOTRA THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE HOW THE ENEMY CAME TO THLUNRANA THE SPHINX IN THEBES (MASSACHUSETTS) THE TROUBLE IN LEAFY GREEN STREET Title: Fifty-one Tales Author: Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett] Language: English Produced by Anne Reshnyk, Suzanne L. Shell, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team FIFTY-ONE TALESby Lord Dunsany 1915 CONTENTSThe Assignation Charon The Death of Pan The Sphinx at Giza The Hen Wind and Fog The Raft-Builders The Workman The Guest Death and Odysseus Death and the Orange The Prayer of the Flower Time and the Tradesman The Little City The Unpasturable Fields The Worm and the Angel The Songless Country The Latest Thing The Demagogue and the Demi-monde The Giant Poppy Roses The Man With the Golden Ear-rings The Dream of King Karna-Vootra The Storm A Mistaken Identity The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise Alone the Immortals A Moral Little Tale The Return of Song Spring In Town How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana A Losing Game Taking Up Picadilly After the Fire The City The Food of Death The Lonely Idol The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts) The Reward The Trouble in Leafy Green Street The Mist Furrow-Maker Lobster Salad The Return of the Exiles Nature and Time The Song of the Blackbird The Messengers The Three Tall Sons Compromise What We Have Come To The Tomb of Pan |