Five Plays: The Gods of the Mountain; The Golden Doom; King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior; The Glittering Gate; The Lost Silk Hat (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Five Plays: The Gods of the Mountain; The Golden Doom; King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior; The Glittering Gate; The Lost Silk HatEdward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dun sany, is the eighteenth member of his family to bear the title which gives him a place in the Irish peerage. He was born in 1878 and received his education at Eton and Sandhurst. In 1899 he succeeded his father to the title and the family estate in Meath, Ireland. During the South African war he served at the front with the Coldstream Guards. He is passionately fond of outdoor life and Often spends the whole day in the saddle before sitting down at his desk to write late at night.His work proves, however, that he is as fond of spiritual as of physical exercise, and that he is an inveterate traveller in those mysterious regions of the partly known or wholly unknown where the imagina tion alone can guide us. His first literary heroes were the brothers Grimm and Andersen. Then the Greek world Of Olympians was revealed to him, making a lasting impression on his mind. But it was the Bible that gave him the limpid style which makes his most fantastic tales as real as government reports - or rather much more so. For years no style seemed to me natural but that of the Bible, he said not long ago, and I feared that I would never become a writer when I saw that other people did not use it.For something like ten years he has been a pretty frequent and increasingly valued contributor to Eng lish and anglo-irish periodicals. He has previously published five volumes: The Gods of Fegana, 1905.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.