Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley

by Lord Dunsany

Overview

Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley (1922). Having established himself as a bestselling author of short fiction, Dunsany published Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, his first novel. Recognized as a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction, Dunsany is a man whose work, in the words of H. P. Lovecraft, remains “unexcelled in the sorcery of crystalline singing prose, and supreme in the creation of a gorgeous and languorous world of incandescently exotic vision.” In an ancient, mythical Spain, a world of castles, dragons, and magic, Don Rodriguez responds to his father’s summons. Before the throne of the Lord of the Valleys of Arguento Harez, the young man learns of his fate. His younger brother, a simple, unskilled man, will inherit the kingdom upon his father’s death. Don Rodriguez, a skilled musician and legendary swordsman, must venture off into the unknown in order to prove himself, or die trying. Armed with his father’s ancient Castilian blade, he sets out to find a servant to accompany him. His final destination is the mysterious Shadow Valley, a haunted realm from which few ever return. This edition of Lord Dunsany’s Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley is a classic of British fantasy fiction reimagined for modern readers.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781537803470
Publisher:	Jovian Press
Publication date:	12/02/2017
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	295
File size:	448 KB

About the Author

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 - 25 October 1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, and during the 1910s was considered one of the greatest living writers of the English-speaking world; he is today best known for his 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter. Born and raised in London, to the second-oldest title (created 1439) in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at what may be Ireland's longest-inhabited house, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland, and travelled and hunted extensively. He died in Dublin after an attack of appendicitis.

Table of Contents

The First Chronicle: How He Met and Said Farewell to Mine Host of the Dragon and Knight

The Second Chronicle: How He Hired a Memorable Servant

The Third Chronicle: How He Came to the House of Wonder

The Fourth Chronicle: How He Came to the Mountains of the Sun

The Fifth Chronicle: How He Rode in the Twilight and Saw Serafina

The Sixth Chronicle: How He Sang to His Mandolin and What Came of His Singing

The Seventh Chronicle: How He Came to Shadow Valley

The Eighth Chronicle: How He Travelled Far

The Ninth Chronicle: How He Won a Castle in Spain

The Tenth Chronicle: How He Came Back to Lowlight

The Eleventh Chronicle: How He Turned to Gardening and His Sword Rested

The Twelfth Chronicle: The Building of Castle Rodriguez and the Ending of These Chronicles