Time and the Gods

De: Lord Dunsany

Narrado por: Matthew Schmitz

TIME AND THE GODS is the second book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. It is a collection of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna. It was preceded by his earlier collection The Gods of Pegāna and followed by some stories in The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories. Dunsany included a brief preface in the original edition and added a new introduction to the 1922 edition.

• "Preface"
• "Time and the Gods"
• "The Coming of the Sea"
• "A Legend of the Dawn"
• "The Vengeance of Men"
• "When the Gods Slept"
• "The King That Was Not"
• "The Cave of Kai"
• "The Sorrow of Search"
• "The Men of Yarnith"
• "For the Honour of the Gods"
• "Night and Morning"
• "Usury"
• "Mlideen"
• "The Secret of the Gods"
• "The South Wind"
• "In the Land of Time"
• "The Relenting of Sardinac"
• "The Jest of the Gods"
• "The Dreams of the Prophet"
• "The Journey of the King"

The book was first published in hardcover by William Heinemann in September, 1906, and has been reprinted a number of times since. It was issued by the Modern Library in an unauthorized combined edition with The Book of Wonder under the latter's title in 1918.

The title is thought to have been influenced by Algernon Swinburne, who wrote the line "Time and the Gods are at strife" in his 1866 poem "Hymn to Proserpine".

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A Great Piece Of Classic Fantasy

You should read Gods Of Pegana before this one for a deeper understanding of Dunsany's cosmogony. This stuff is what every other writer of fantasy strives to achieve and it is read beautifully by a competent narrator familiar with the material.