THE BOOK OF WONDER

by

Lord Dunsany

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

• THE BRIDE OF THE MAN-HORSE
  
• DISTRESSING TALE OF THANGOBRIND THE JEWELLER
  
• THE HOUSE OF THE SPHINX
  
• PROBABLE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE LITERARY MEN
  
• THE INJUDICOUS PRAYERS OF POMBO THE IDOLATER
  
• THE LOOT OF BOMBASHARNA
  
• MISS CUBBIDGE AND THE DRAGON OF ROMANCE
  
• THE QUEST OF THE QUEEN'S TEARS
  
• THE HOARD OF THE GIBBELINS
  
• HOW NUTH WOULD HAVE PRACTISED HIS ART UPON THE GNOLES
  
• HOW ONE CAME, AS WAS FORETOLD, TO THE CITY OF NEVER
  
• THE CORONATION OF MR. THOMAS SHAP
  
• CHU-BU AND SHEEMISH
  
• THE WONDERFUL WINDOW
  

Here the fourteenth Episode of the Book of Wonder endeth and here the relating of the Chronicles of Little Adventures at the Edge of the World. I take farewell of my readers. But it may be we shall even meet again, for it is still to be told how the gnomes robbed the fairies, and of the vengeance that the fairies took, and how even the gods themselves were troubled thereby in their sleep; and how the King of Ool insulted the troubadours, thinking himself safe among his scores of archers and hundreds of halberdiers, and how the troubadours stole to his towers by night, and under his battlements by the light of the moon made that king ridiculous for ever in song. But for this I must first return to the Edge of the World. Behold, the caravans start.