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{{Short description|Collection of short fiction by Lord Dunsany}}
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| name          = At the Edge of the World
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| translator    =
| image         = At the Edge of the World.jpg
| caption       = Cover of ''At the Edge of the World''
| author        = [[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany|Lord Dunsany]]
| cover_artist  = Ray Cruz
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| series        = [[Ballantine Adult Fantasy series]]
| genre         = [[Fantasy fiction|Fantasy]]
| publisher     = [[Ballantine Books]]
| release_date  = 1970
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| media_type    = Print (paperback)
| pages         = xi, 238
| isbn          = 0-345-01879-6
| preceded_by   = [[The King of Elfland's Daughter]]
| followed_by   = [[Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley]]
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'''''At the Edge of the World''''' is a collection of [[fantasy]] short stories by Irish writer [[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany|Lord Dunsany]], edited by [[Lin Carter]]. It was first published in paperback by [[Ballantine Books]] as the thirteenth volume of its [[Ballantine Adult Fantasy series]] in March 1970. It was the series' second Dunsany volume, and the first collection of his shorter fantasies assembled by Carter.
The book collects thirty short pieces by the author, with an introduction and afterword by Carter.
==Contents==
*"Introduction: The Dreams of Mānā-Yood-Sushāi" ([[Lin Carter]])
*"The Cave of Kai"
*"Of the Gods of Averon" (original title: "The Sorrow of Search")
*"Mlideen"
*"The King That Was Not"
*"The Men of Yarnith"
*"In the Land of Time"
*"Time and the Gods"
*"The Opulence of Yahn" (original title: "Usury")
*"[[The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth]]"
*"Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean"
*"The Idle City"
*"Bethmoora"
*"[[Idle Days on the Yann]]"
*"The Hashish Man"
*"Carcassonne"
*"In Zaccarath"
*"The Dreams of King Karna-Vootra"
*"How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana"
*"The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller, and of the Doom That Befell Him"
*"The Avenger of Perdóndaris"
*"How the Dwarfs Rose Up in War" (original title: "A Petty Quarrel")
*"The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men"
*"The Loot of Bombasharna"
*"The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolator"
*"The Bride of the Man-Horse"
*"The Quest of the Queen's Tears"
*"How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never"
*"A Day at the Edge of the World" (original title: "The Long Porter's Tale")
*"Erlathrodonion" (original title: "A Tale of the Equator")
*"Epilogue" to ''[[The Book of Wonder]]''
*"Afterword" ([[Lin Carter]])
==Sources==
* {{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=29–30 | year=1993}}
==External links==
* {{librivox book | title=The Gods of Pegāna | author=Lord DUNSANY}}
* {{librivox book | title=Time and the Gods | author=Lord DUNSANY}}
* {{librivox book | title=The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories | author=Lord DUNSANY}}
* {{librivox book | title=A Dreamer's Tales | author=Lord DUNSANY}}
* {{librivox book | title=The Book of Wonder | author=Lord DUNSANY}}
* {{librivox book | title=Fifty-One Tales | author=Lord DUNSANY (1878 - 1957)}}
* {{librivox book | title=Tales of Wonder | author=Lord DUNSANY}}
* {{librivox book | title=Tales of Three Hemispheres | author=Lord DUNSANY}}
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