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I'm so enjoying discovering all of Lord Dunsany's work. I'm trying to measure it out as long as I can, every now and then buying another old edition from abe books. They're such wonderful discoveries I'm dreading running out.
Last night I read a first edition of the play "IF". It had only cost me 8 dollars including shipping. But there's just something more magical about reading Dunsany in old editions. His words take you away to another time and place, and should be appreciated in old archaic binding. Books that have been read and enjoyed by others and have untold stories of their own. Somehow it just adds to the ambiance.
The play itself was very good, it shocked me once, which is part of the reason I enjoy Dunsany's work so much. You're reading this twisting and turning story and you're following along and then suddenly something happens that you weren't expecting. This play really was a journey down starting in the totally ordinary, to the totally surreal and unimaginable and then back. It's the longest play of his that I've read to date. Like all of his work I have a very hard time seeing anyone being able to produce it today. Mass accusations of politically incorrect being only the starting point. But it was funny, and engaging, and I throughly enjoyed it.
I almost ordered another book of his from abe books today, a nice 1922 edition of Don Rodriquez, but then thought I should not buy anymore books until Bill and I get back from Powells. And postpone the enjoyment a little longer.
Last night I read a first edition of the play "IF". It had only cost me 8 dollars including shipping. But there's just something more magical about reading Dunsany in old editions. His words take you away to another time and place, and should be appreciated in old archaic binding. Books that have been read and enjoyed by others and have untold stories of their own. Somehow it just adds to the ambiance.
The play itself was very good, it shocked me once, which is part of the reason I enjoy Dunsany's work so much. You're reading this twisting and turning story and you're following along and then suddenly something happens that you weren't expecting. This play really was a journey down starting in the totally ordinary, to the totally surreal and unimaginable and then back. It's the longest play of his that I've read to date. Like all of his work I have a very hard time seeing anyone being able to produce it today. Mass accusations of politically incorrect being only the starting point. But it was funny, and engaging, and I throughly enjoyed it.
I almost ordered another book of his from abe books today, a nice 1922 edition of Don Rodriquez, but then thought I should not buy anymore books until Bill and I get back from Powells. And postpone the enjoyment a little longer.