Time and the Gods
Start Publishing LLC · Paperback · August 24, 2015
Once when the gods were young and only Their swarthy servant Time was without age, the gods lay sleeping by a broad river upon earth.
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- Who it’s for
- A brief glimpse of Dunsany’s dreamlike mythmaking, where gods’ visions rise in marble.
- Genres
- Fantasy Anthologies, Fairy Tales & Myths, The Classics
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, August 24, 2015
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Once when the gods were young and only Their swarthy servant Time was without age, the gods lay sleeping by a broad river upon earth. There in a valley that from all the earth the gods had set apart for Their repose the gods dreamed marble dreams. And with domes and pinnacles the dreams arose and stood up proudly between the river and the sky, all shimmering white to the morning.
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In the city's midst the gleaming marble of a thousand steps climbed to the citadel where arose four pinnacles beckoning to heaven, and midmost between the pinnacles there stood the dome, vast, as the gods had dreamed it.
Dreams in Marble
A brief glimpse of Dunsany’s dreamlike mythmaking, where gods’ visions rise in marble.
Come here for
- Mythic fantasy with the sweep of a dream
- Marble cities, sleeping gods, and lyrical imagery
Expect
- A legendary, otherworldly atmosphere
- Prose that lingers on images rather than plot
Where it sits
| Fantasy Anthologies | 93% |
|---|---|
| Fairy Tales & Myths | 77% |
| The Classics | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Fantasy Anthologies
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
- Authors
- Lord Dunsany
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- August 24, 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- The Classics