The Man Who Ate the Phoenix

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author = Lord Dunsany
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Fantasy short stories
publisher = Jarrolds
release_date = 1949
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
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"The Man Who Ate the Phoenix" is a collection of fantasy short stories by Lord Dunsany. The first edition was published in London by Jarrolds in December, 1949.

The book collects 41 short pieces by Dunsany.

Contents

*"The Man Who Ate the Phoenix"
*"The Widow Flynn's Apple Tree"
*"Where Everyone's Business is Known"
*"The Rose By-pass"
*"An Old Man's Tale"
*"How the Tinker Came to Skavangur"
*"The Opal Arrow-Head"
*"The Sultan's Pet"
*"The Descent of the Sultan of Khash"
*"The Policeman's Prophecy"
*"The Wind in the Wood"
*"The Tiger's Skin"
*"The Finding of Mr. Jupkens"
*"The Awful Dream"
*"Mrs. Mulger"
*"The Choice"
*"Rose Tibbets"
*"Little Snow White Up to Date"
*"The Return"
*"The Mad Ghost"
*"The Cause"
*"The Cut"
*"The Sleuthing of Lily Bostum"
*"The Possibility of Life on the Third Planet"
*"Old Emma"
*"How Abdul Din Saved Justice"
*"The First Watch-Dog"
*"The Chess-Player, the Financier, and Another"
*"The Honorary Member"
*"The Experiment"
*"Down among the Kingcups"
*"The Gratitude of the Devil"
*"The After-Dinner Speech"
*"The Je-ne-sais-quoi"
*"Poseidon"
*"A Near Thing"
*"Ardor Canis"
*"A Lapse of Memory"
*"Forty Years On"
*"The Iron Door"
*"The Great Scoop"

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=27 | date=1993