The Fourth Book of Jorkens

Infobox Book
name = The Fourth Book of Jorkens
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image_caption = Dust-jacket for "The Fourth Book of Jorkens" by Lord Dunsany
author = Lord Dunsany
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = Jorkens
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genre = fantasy short stories
publisher = Jarrolds
release_date = 1947
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 176 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey
followed_by = Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey

"The Fourth Book of Jorkens" is a collection of fantasy short stories, narrated by Mr. Joseph Jorkens, by author Lord Dunsany. It was first published by Jarrolds in 1947. It was the fourth collection of Dunsany's Jorkens tales to be published. It has also been issued in combination with the third book, "Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey", in the omnibus edition "The Collected Jorkens, Volume Two", published by Night Shade Press in 2004.

Contents

"The Fourth Book of Jorkens" contains the following tales:

# "Making Fine Weather"
# "Mgamu"
# "The Haunting of Jalahanstown"
# "The Pale-Green Image"
# "Jorkens Leaves Prison"
# "The Warning"
# "The Sacred City of Krakovlitz"
# "Jorkens Practices Medicine and Magic"
# "Jarton's Disease"
# "On the Other Side of the Sun"
# "The Rebuff"
# "Jorkens' Ride"
# "The Secret of the Sphinx"
# "The Khamseen"
# "The Expulsion"
# "The Welcome"
# "By Command of Pharoah"
# "A Cricket Problem"
# "A Life's Work"
# "The Ingratiating Smile"
# "The Last Bull"
# "The Strange Drug of Dr. Caber"
# "A Deal with the Devil"
# "Strategy at the Billiards Club"
# "Jorkens in Witch Wood"
# "Lost"
# "The English Magnifico"
# "The Cleverness of Dr. Caber"
# "Fairy Gold"
# "A Royal Dinner"
# "A Fight With Knives"
# "Out West"
# "In a Dim Room"

Reprints

*Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1948 (3,118 copies).

References

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