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{{Short description|Book by Lord Dunsany (1940)}}
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{{Infobox book 
| name          = Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey
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| image         = Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey.jpg
| caption       = Dust-jacket for ''Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey'' by Lord Dunsany
| author        = [[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany|Lord Dunsany]]
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| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English
| series        = [[Jorkens]]
| subject       = 
| genre         = [[Fantasy fiction|fantasy]] [[short stories]]
| publisher     = [[G. P. Putnam's Sons|Putnam]]
| release_date  = 1940
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| isbn          = <!-- NA -->
| preceded_by   = [[Jorkens Remembers Africa]]
| followed_by   = [[The Fourth Book of Jorkens]]
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'''''Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey''''' is a collection of [[Fantasy fiction|fantasy]] [[short stories]], narrated by Mr. [[Joseph Jorkens]], by writer [[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany|Lord Dunsany]]. It was first published in [[London]] by [[G. P. Putnam's Sons|Putnam]] in September, [[1940 in literature|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==
*{{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=21–22 | year=1993 | isbn=0-8108-2714-X}}

==External links==
* {{FadedPage|id=20200830|name=Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey}}

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[[Category:1940 short story collections]]
[[Category:Fantasy short story collections]]
[[Category:Short story collections by Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany]]
[[Category:G. P. Putnam's Sons books]]


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