dunsany

text encoding and analysis of various works of Lord Dunsany

Work is just beginning and I’m starting by gathering the short stories in three collections recommended by John D. Rateliff.

• raw-pg/ contains the raw Project Gutenberg texts of the three collections listed below (one file per volume)
• raw-text/ contains the raw texts of each short story in a separate file
• scripts/ contains Python scripts for generating the raw text and XML
• xml/ contains generated XML versions of each short story
• docs/ contains generated HTML versions of each short story for display via Github Pages

Next up is another round of improvements to the XML markup.

After that, preparation for linguistic analysis will be done.

Works Included (so far)

A Dreamer’s Tales (1910)

• Preface
• Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean
• Blagdaross
• The Madness of Andelsprutz
• Where the Tides Ebb and Flow
• Bethmoora
• Idle Days on the Yann
• The Sword and the Idol
• The Idle City
• The Hashish Man
• Poor Old Bill
• The Beggars
• Carcassonne
• In Zaccarath
• The Field
• The Day of the Poll
• The Unhappy Body

The Book of Wonder (1912)

• Preface
• The Bride of the Man-Horse
• The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller
• The House of the Sphinx
• The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men
• The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolator
• The Loot of Bombasharna
• Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance
• The Quest of the Queen’s Tears
• The Hoard of the Gibbelins
• How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles
• How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never
• The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap
• Chu-Bu and Sheemish
• The Wonderful Window
• Epilogue

Tales of Wonder (1916)

• Preface
• A Tale of London
• Thirteen at Table
• The City on Mallington Moor
• Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn
• The Bad Old Woman in Black
• The Bird of the Difficult Eye
• The Long Porter’s Tale
• The Loot of Loma
• The Secret of the Sea
• How Ali Came to the Black Country
• The Bureau d’Echange de Maux
• A Story of Land and Sea
• A Tale of the Equator
• A Narrow Escape
• The Watch-Tower
• How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None’s Desire
• The Three Sailors’ Gambit
• The Exiles’ Club
• The Three Infernal Jokes