Mr Jorkens Remembers Africa

Lord Dunsany

Publié par Gateway, le 09 avril 2019

320 pages

Résumé

Jorkens Remembers Africa, the second collection of Dunsany's Jorkens tales to be published, is a collection of fantasy short stories, narrated by Mr. Joseph Jorkens. The book collects twenty-one short pieces by Dunsany. The Jorkens stories are set in the London gentleman's or adventurer's club of which the title character is a member. They usually open with another member mentioning an interesting experience he has had; this rouses Jorkens, who in return for a whisky-and-soda (merely to "moisten his throat," you understand!) goes the other member one better with an extraordinary tall tale, supposedly from his own past. His stories often tip well over the boundaries of the plausible, into the realms of fantasy, horror, or even science fiction, and his auditors can never be quite sure what proportion of what he relates was truly experienced and to what degree he might have embellished.

Contes d'un rêveur

Vent du Nord

Les fabuleux voyages de Mr Jorkens

Le livre des merveilles

La fille du roi des elfes

The Book of Wonder

Merveilles et démons ; contes fantastiques

Les Dieux de Pegana

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