Jorkens Remembers Africa

Jorkens Remembers Africa

Infobox Book
name = Jorkens Remembers Africa
title_orig =
translator =


image_caption = US dust-jacket for "Jorkens Remembers Africa" by Lord Dunsany
author = Lord Dunsany
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = United States, then UK
language = English
series = Jorkens
subject =
genre = fantasy short stories
publisher = Longmans, Green & Co.
release_date = 1934
english_release_date = 1934
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages =
isbn = NA
preceded_by = The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens
followed_by = Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey

"Jorkens Remembers Africa" is a collection of fantasy short stories, narrated by Mr. Joseph Jorkens, by author Lord Dunsany. It was first published in New York by Longmans, Green & Co. in October, 1934, with the English edition (under the alternate title "Mr. Jorkens Remembers Africa") following in November of the same year from the same publisher. It was the second collection of Dunsany's Jorkens tales to be published. It has also been issued in combination with the first book, "The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens", in the omnibus edition "The Collected Jorkens, Volume One", published by Night Shade Books in 2004.

The book collects twenty-one short pieces by Dunsany.

Contents

* "Preface"
* "The Lost Romance"
* "The Curse of the Witch"
* "The Pearly Beach"
* "The Walk to Lingham"
* "The Escape from the Valley"
* "One August in the Red Sea"
* "The Bare Truth"
* "What Jorkens Has to Put Up With"
* "Ozymandias"
* "At the End of the Universe"
* "The Black Mamba"
* "In the Garden of Memories"
* "The Slugly Beast"
* "Earth's Secret"
* "The Persian Spell"
* "Stranger Than Fiction"
* "The Golden Gods"
* "The Correct Kit"
* "How Ryan Got out of Russia"
* "The Club Secretary"
* "A Mystery of the East"

References

*cite book | last=Joshi | first=S. T. | authorlink=S. T. Joshi | title=Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer | location=Metuchen, N.J. | publisher=The Scarecrow Press, Inc. | pages=18-19 | date=1993 | id=ISBN 0-8108-2714-X


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