Unhappy Far-Off Things is a short non-fiction piece about the destruction of areas of France in World War I. Dunsany's poetic prose brings to life the reality of modern warfare then. The utter destruction he narrates as he walks through these villages is heartbreaking. How sad to think that we have developed weapons now that are even more powerful...More
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than ninety books of his work were published in his lifetime. Dunsany's œuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as plays, novels and essays. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, and during the 1910s was considered one of the greatest living writers of the English-speaking world; he is today best known for his 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter and The Gods of Pegāna, wherein he devised his own fictional pantheon and laid the groundwork for the...More
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than ninety books of his work were published in his lifetime. Dunsany's œuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as plays, novels and essays. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, and during the 1910s was considered one of the greatest living writers of the English-speaking world; he is today best known for his 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter and The Gods of Pegāna, wherein he devised his own fictional pantheon and laid the groundwork for the Fantasy genre. He was the inventor of an asymmetric version of chess called Dunsany's Chess.
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Unhappy Far-Off Things is a short non-fiction piece about the destruction of areas of France in World War I. Dunsany's poetic prose brings to life the reality of modern warfare then. The utter destruction he narrates as he walks through these villages is heartbreaking. How sad to think that we have developed weapons now that are even more powerful than the machines and bombs that desolated those areas then. Man will never learn.
- Margaret
Edward Plunkett (lord dunsany)
