Time and The Gods (Fantasy Masterworks #2)

Time and the Gods consists of six volumes: Time and the Gods (1906), The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908), A Dreamer's Tales (1910), The Book of Wonder (1912), The Last Book of Wonder (1916), and The Gods of Pegana (1905). In each of these volumes, Dunsany weaves tales of beauty, caprice, and discovery. The first part of this collection, Time and the Gods, is perhaps representative in tone for these six volumes. Over the course of twenty related short stories, Dunsany traces the relationship between the gods (retreading with certain changes the ground trod in The Gods of Pegana) and their slave Time, who dreams of overthrowing and devouring the gods just as he has been given license to do to the gods' creation, the world.

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