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Jorkens
Series · 6 books · 1931-2002

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The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens

1931

The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens is a collection of fantasy short stories by writer Lord Dunsany. It was first published in London by G. P. Putnam's Sons in April, 1931, with the American edition following in September of the same year from the same publisher. It was the first collection of Dunsany's Jorkens tales to be published. It has also been issued in combination with the second book, Jorkens Remembers Africa, in the omnibus edition The Collected Jorkens, Volume One, published by Night Shade Books in 2004. 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. The initial Jorkens collection includes thirteen short pieces by Dunsany.
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Jorkens Remembers Africa

1934

Jorkens Remembers Africa is a collection of fantasy short stories, narrated by Mr. Joseph Jorkens, by writer Lord Dunsany.
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Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey

1940

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" \[edit\]
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The Fourth Book of Jorkens

1948

Lord Dunsany. The Fourth Book of Jorkens. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1948. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 194 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.
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Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey

1931

Contents "Preface" "The Two-Way War" "A Nice Lot of Diamonds" "Letting Bygones be Bygones" "The Lost Invention" "On Other Paths" "The Partner" "Poulet a la Richelieu" "A Walk in the Night" "One Summer's Evening" "A Friend of the Family" "An Eccentricity of Genius" "Influenza" "The Unrecorded Test Match" "Idle Tears" "Among the Neutrals" "An Idyll of the Sahara" "The Devil among the Willows" "A Spanish Castle" "The New Moon" "The Gods of Clay" "A Rash Remark" "The Story of Jorkens' Watch" "The Track Through the Wood" "Snow Water" "The Greatest Invention" "The Verdict" "A Conversation in Bond Street" "The Reward" "Which Way?" "A Desperado in Surrey" "Misadventure" "A Long Memory" "An Absentminded Professor" "Greek Meets Greek"
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The Last Book of Jorkens

2002

Prepared for publication in 1957, published 2002. Contents: A Fatal Mistake A Prophet Without Honour A Big Bang Jorkens’ Regret The Two Scientists The Lost Charm Bringing Things Up to Date A Snake Story The Deal In the Mojave A Modern Conqueror The Little Light Across the Colour Bar A Bit of Counter-Espionage A Wonderful Day Not Guilty The Explanation A Deal with a Witch Jorkens’ Dilemma A Plaything of Our Betters The Visitor On Wings of Song

Author

Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany
Author · 55 books
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, eighteenth baron of Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes hundreds of short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Born to one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage, he lived much of his life at perhaps Ireland's longest-inhabited home, Dunsany Castle near Tara, received an honourary doctorate from Trinity College, and died in Dublin.
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