Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey
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Author | Lord Dunsany |
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Language | English |
Series | Jorkens |
Genre | fantasy short stories |
Publisher | Putnam |
Publication date | 1940 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Preceded by | Jorkens Remembers Africa |
Followed by | The Fourth Book of Jorkens |
Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey is a collection of fantasy short stories, narrated by Mr. Joseph Jorkens, by writer Lord Dunsany. It was first published in London by Putnam in September, 1940. It was the third collection of Dunsany's Jorkens tales to be published. It has also been issued in combination with the fourth book, The Fourth Book of Jorkens, and two uncollected short stories, in the omnibus edition The Collected Jorkens, Volume Two, published by Night Shade Books in 2004.
As noted by S. T. Joshi and many book dealers, this volume was and remains very scarce. It collects twenty-six short pieces by Dunsany.
Contents
- "Preface"
- "Jorkens' Revenge"
- "Jorkens Retires from Business"
- "Jorkens Handles a Big Property"
- "The Invention of Dr. Caber"
- "The Grecian Singer"
- "The Jorkens Family Emeralds"
- "A Fishing Story"
- "Jorkens in High Finance"
- "The Sign"
- "The Angelic Shepherd"
- "The Neapolitan Ice"
- "The Development of the Rillswood Estate"
- "The Fancy Man"
- "The Lion and the Unicorn"
- "A Doubtful Story"
- "Jorkens Looks Forward"
- "Jorkens Among the Ghosts"
- "Elephant Shooting"
- "African Magic"
- "Jorkens Consults a Prophet"
- "A Matter of Business"
- "The Invention of the Age"
- "The Sultan, the Monkey and the Banana"
- "Pundleton's Audience"
- "The Fight in the Drawing-Room"
- "The Ivory Poacher"
References
- Joshi, S. T. (1993). Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. pp. 21–22. ISBN 0-8108-2714-X.
External links
- Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey at Faded Page (Canada)
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collections
- The Gods of Pegāna
- Time and the Gods
- The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories
- A Dreamer's Tales
- The Book of Wonder
- Fifty-One Tales
- The Last Book of Wonder
- Tales of Three Hemispheres
- The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens
- Jorkens Remembers Africa
- Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey
- The Fourth Book of Jorkens
- The Man Who Ate the Phoenix
- The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories
- Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey
- The Last Book of Jorkens
collections
- At the Edge of the World
- Beyond the Fields We Know
- Over the Hills and Far Away
- The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms
- Time and the Gods
- The Collected Jorkens
- In the Land of Time, and Other Fantasy Tales
- Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley
- The King of Elfland's Daughter
- The Charwoman's Shadow
- The Curse of the Wise Woman
- Sidney Sime (preferred artist)
- John Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany (father)
- Reginald Drax (brother)
- Dunsany Castle
- Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany (grandson and literary heir)
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