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Bibliographie
Le roman le plus connu de lord Dunsany est La Fille du roi des Elfes.
C'est sur l'ordre du roi son père que le prince Alvéric entreprend de traverser la forêt enchantée pour y découvrir et enlever la fille du roi des Elfes. Il la trouve en effet, après avoir combattu les chevaliers qui défendent sa demeure, mais le rapt n'aura pas lieu : en effet, c'est de son plein gré que la princesse Lirazel, conquise, suivra le jeune prince jusqu'au royaume d'Erl, où naîtra Orion, le fruit de leurs amours.
Mais le roi des Elfes, furieux, envoie vers sa fille un troll porteur d'un message magique qui la ramène près de lui. Alvéric, inconsolable, part à sa recherche, mais protégée par la magie de son roi, le domaine des Elfes est devenu introuvable. Tandis qu'Orion, qui grandit en beauté et en sagesse, apprend à connaître la forêt enchantée…
Ses principaux romans de fantasy
The Gods of Pegana (1905)
Time and the Gods (1906)
The Sword of Welleran (1908)
A Dreamer's Tale (1910)
The Book of Wonder (1912)
Fifty-one Tales (1915)
Tales of Wonder (1916), in America als The Last Book of Wonder veröffentlicht
Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919)
The Man who ate the Phoenix (1947)
Autres romans de fantasy
The Chronicles of Rodriguez oder Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley (1922)
The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924)
The Charwoman's Shadow (1924)
The Blessing of Pan (1927)
The Curse of the Wise Woman (1935)
Up in the Hills (1935)
My Talks with Dean Spauley (1936)
Rory and Bran (1936)
The Story of Mona Sheehy (1939)
Guerilla(1944)
The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders (1950)
The Last Revolution (1951)
His Fellow Men (1952)
Cycle de Jorkens
The Travel Tales of Mr Joseph Jorkens (1931)
Jorkens remembers Africa (1934
Jorkens has a Large Whiskey (1940)
The Fourth Book of Jorkens (1948)
Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey (1954)
The Little Tales of Smethers (1952)
The Glittering Gate (1909, Abbey Theatre, Dublin)
The Tents of the Arabs(1910)
The Laughter of the Gods (1910)
King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior (1910 oder 1911)
The Queen's Enemies
A Night at the Inn (1911)
The Gods of the Mountain (1911, Haymarket Theatre, London)
Divers
Five Plays (1914): The Gods of the Mountain, The Golden Doom, King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior, The Glittering Gate, und The Lost Silk Hat.
Plays of God and Men (1917): The Tents of the Arabs, The Laughter of the Gods, The Queen's Enemies und A Night at the Inn.
Plays of Near and Far (1922): If, The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles, The Flight of the Queen, Cheezo, A Good Bargain, If Shakespeare Lived To-Day und Fame and the Poet.
Alexander and Three small plays(1925): Alexander, The Old King's Tale, The Evil Kettle und The Amusement of Khan Kharuda.
Seven Modern Comedies (1927): Atalanta in Wimbledon, The Raffle, The Journey of the Soul, In Holy Russia, His Sainted Grandmother, The Hopeless Passion of Mr. Bunyon and The Jest of Hahalaba.
The Old Folk of the Centuries (1930)
Lord Adrian (1933)
Mr. Faithful (1935)
Plays for Earth amd Air (1937): Fame Comes Late, A Matter of Honour, Mr. Sliggen's Hour, The Pumpkin, The Use of Man, The Bureau de Change, The Seventh Symphony, Golden Dragon City, Time's Joke und Atmospherics.
Recueils de poésie
Fifty Poems (1929)
Mirage Water (1938)
War Poems (a muddle, printed while we were abroad) (1941)
A Journey (1943)
Wandering Songs (1943)
The Year (1946)
The Odes of Horace (1947) (Übersetzung)
To Awaken Pegasus (1949)
Verses Dedicatory: 18 Previously Unpublished Poems (1985, postum)
Autres recueils
Tales of War (1918)
Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919)
Ghosts of the Heavyside Layer and Other Fantasmas (1980, postum)
Essais
Nowadays (1918)
Building a Sentence (1934)
My Ireland (1937)
The Donellan Lectures 1943 (1945)
A Glimpse From the Watchtower (1946)
Satire
If I were Dictator (The Pronouncement of the Fraud Macaroni) (1934)
Autobiographies
Patches of Sunlight (1938)
While the Sirens Slept (1944)
The Sirens Wake (1945)
