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{{Short description|Book by Lord Dunsany (1915)}}
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| name          = Fifty-One Tales
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| image         = File:FiftyOneTales.jpg
| caption       = First UK edition
| author        = [[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany|Lord Dunsany]]
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| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English
| series        = 
| genre         = [[Fantasy (genre)|Fantasy]]
| publisher     = [[Elkin Mathews]] (UK)<BR>Mitchell Kennerly (US)
| release_date  = 1915
| media_type    = Print (hardcover)
| pages         = 
| isbn          = 
| preceded_by   = [[Five Plays]]
| followed_by   = [[The Last Book of Wonder]]
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'''''Fifty-One Tales''''' is a collection of [[fantasy]] short stories by Irish writer [[Lord Dunsany]], considered a major influence on the work of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], [[H. P. Lovecraft]], [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] and others. The first editions, in hardcover, were published simultaneously in London and New York City by [[Elkin Mathews]] and [[Mitchell Kennerley]], respectively, in April 1915. The British and American editions differ in that they arrange the material slightly differently and that each includes a story the other omits; "The Poet Speaks with Earth" in the British version, and "The Mist" in the American version.

The collection's significance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication (as ''The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales'') by the [[Newcastle Publishing Company]] as the third volume of the [[Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library]] in September 1974. The Newcastle edition used the American version of the text.

The book collects fifty-one short stories by the author.

==Contents==
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*"The Assignation"
*"Charon"
*"The Death of Pan"
*"The Sphinx at Gizeh"
*"The Hen"
*"Wind and Fog"
*"The Raft Builders"
*"The Workman"
*"The Guest"
*"Death and Odysseus"
*"Death and the Orange"
*"The Prayer of the Flowers"
*"Time and the Tradesman"
*"The Little City"
*"The Unpasturable Fields"
*"The Worm and the Angel"
*"The Songless Country"
*"The Latest Thing"
*"The Demagogue and the Demi-Monde"
*"The Giant Poppy"
*"Roses"
*"The Man with the Golden Ear-rings"
*"The Dream of King Karna-Vootra"
*"The Storm"
*"A Mistaken Identity"
*"The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise"
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*"Alone the Immortals"
*"A Moral Little Tale"
*"The Return of Song"
*"Spring in Town"
*"How the Enemy Came to Thlūnrāna"
*"A Losing Game"
*"Taking Up Piccadilly"
*"After the Fire"
*"The City"
*"The Food of Death"
*"The Lonely Idol"
*"The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)"
*"The Reward"
*"The Trouble in Leafy Green Street"
*"Furrow-Maker"
*"Lobster Salad"
*"The Return of the Exiles"
*"Nature and Time"
*"The Song of the Blackbird"
*"The Messengers"
*"The Three Tall Sons"
*"Compromise"
*"What We Have Come To"
*"The Tomb of Pan"
*"The Poet Speaks With Earth" (English version only)
*"The Mist" (American version only)
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==References==
* {{cite book|last=Joshi|first=S. T.|authorlink=S. T. Joshi|title=Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer|location=Metuchen, N.J.|publisher=The Scarecrow Press, Inc.|pages=5–6|year=1993}}

==External links==
* {{StandardEbooks|Standard Ebooks URL=https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lord-dunsany/fifty-one-tales}}
* {{Gutenberg|no=7838|name=Fifty-One Tales}}
* {{librivox book|title=Fifty-One Tales|author=Lord DUNSANY}}

{{Lord Dunsany}}

[[Category:1915 short story collections]]
[[Category:Fantasy short story collections]]
[[Category:Short story collections by Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany]]

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