The Last Book of Wonder

About this book

A traveller enters a street that is missing from ordinary maps. Another hears of a secret trade in misery. Gods, dreamers and obscure officials seem to conduct their affairs just beyond the sight of familiar life.

Lord Dunsany's stories have a peculiar confidence in the worlds they invent, delivering extraordinary events with the calm voice of an old storyteller. Sidney H. Sime's drawings help furnish those worlds with creatures and places. The tales are brief, yet their strange economies and customs linger in the imagination.