At the Edge of the World

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name = At the Edge of the World
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image_caption = Cover of "At the Edge of the World"
author = Lord Dunsany
cover_artist = Ray Cruz
country = United States
language = English
series = Ballantine Adult Fantasy series
genre = Fantasy short stories
publisher = Ballantine Books
release_date = 1970
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media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = xi, 238 pp
isbn = ISBN 0345018796
preceded_by = The King of Elfland's Daughter
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"At the Edge of the World" is a collection of fantasy short stories by Irish author Lord Dunsany, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the thirteenth volume of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in March 1970. It was the series' second Dunsany volume, and the first collection of his shorter fantasies assembled by Carter.

The book collects thirty short pieces by the author, with an introduction and afterword by Carter.

Contents

*"Introduction: The Dreams of Mānā-Yood-Sushāi" (Lin Carter)
*"The Cave of Kai"
*"Of the Gods of Averon" (original title: "The Sorrow of Search")
*"Mlideen"
*"The King That Was Not"
*"The Men of Yarnith"
*"In the Land of Time"
*"Time and the Gods"
*"The Opulence of Yahn" (original title: "Usury")
*"The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth"
*"Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean"
*"The Idle City"
*"Bethmoora"
*"Idle Days on the Yann"
*"The Hashish Man"
*"Carcassonne"
*"In Zaccarath"
*"The Dreams of King Karna-Vootra"
*"How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana"
*"The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller, and of the Doom That Befell Him"
*"The Avenger of Perdóndaris"
*"How the Dwarfs Rose Up in War" (original title: "A Petty Quarrel")
*"The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men"
*"The Loot of Bombasharna"
*"The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolator"
*"The Bride of the Man-Horse"
*"The Quest of the Queen's Tears"
*"How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never"
*"A Day at the Edge of the World" (original title: "The Long Porter's Tale)
*"Erlathrodonion" (original title: "A Tale of the Equator")
*"Epilogue to "The Book of Wonder"
*"Afterword" (Lin Carter)

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=29-30 | date=1993