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Dunsany

American  
[duhn-sey-nee] / dʌnˈseɪ ni /

noun

  1. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett 18th Baron Lord Dunsany, 1878–1957, Irish dramatist, poet, and essayist.


Dunsany British  
/ dʌnˈseɪnɪ /

noun

  1. 18th Baron, title of Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett. 1878–1957, Irish dramatist and short-story writer

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Yeats, Sean O’Faolain and many others, as well as a delightful reminiscence of visits to Dunsany Castle by Kathleen Tynan.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2018

Dunsany wrote some 600 stories, many hitherto uncollected and some unpublished — until “The Ghost in the Corner.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2017

Five are new ones, among them plays by Dorothy Parker, Lord Dunsany, William Saroyan.

From Time Magazine Archive

These are pricey books — $75 to $100 — but some titles, such as “Lord Dunsany: A Comprehensive Bibliography,” edited by Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer, are worth saving up for.

From Washington Post

The names of Dunsany, Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, Galsworthy indicate somewhat the consistent merit of the collection and the certain stimulus of the chosen plays.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

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