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    The Kith of the Elf-Folk: With linked Table of Contents
    The Kith of the Elf-Folk: With linked Table of Contents
    The Kith of the Elf-Folk: With linked Table of Contents
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    The Kith of the Elf-Folk: With linked Table of Contents

    By Lord Dunsany

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    The Wild Things are somewhat human in appearance, only all brown of skin and barely two feet high. Their ears are pointed like the squirrel’s, only far larger, and they leap to prodigious heights. They live all day under deep pools in the loneliest marshes, but at night they come up and dance. Each Wild Thing has over its head a marsh-light, which moves as the Wild Thing moves; they have no souls, and cannot die, and are of the kith of the Elf-folk.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateMar 8, 2015
    ISBN9781633847811
    The Kith of the Elf-Folk: With linked Table of Contents
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    Lord Dunsany

    Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, the 18th Baron of Dunsany, was one of the foremost fantasy writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lord Dunsany, and particularly his Book of Wonder, is widely recognized as a major influence on many of the best known fantasy writers, including J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, and C.S. Lewis. Holding one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage, Lord Dunsany lived much of his life at Dunsany Castle, one of Ireland’s longest-inhabited homes. He died in 1957, leaving an indelible mark on modern fantasy writing.

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      The Kith of the Elf-Folk - Lord Dunsany

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      The Kith of the Elf-Folk

      by Lord Dunsany

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      The Kith of the Elf-Folk

      Chapter I

      Chapter II

      The Kith of the Elf-Folk

      Chapter I

      The north wind was blowing, and red and golden the last days of Autumn were streaming hence. Solemn and cold over the marshes arose the evening.

      It became very still.

      Then the last pigeon went home to the trees on the dry land in the distance, whose shapes already had taken upon themselves a mystery in the haze.

      Then all was still again.

      As the light faded and the haze deepened, mystery crept nearer from every side.

      Then the green plover came in crying, and all alighted.

      And again it became still, save when one of the plover arose and flew a little way uttering the cry of the waste. And hushed and silent became the earth, expecting the first star. Then the duck came in, and the widgeon, company by company: and all the light of day faded out of the sky saving one red band of light. Across the light appeared, black and huge, the wings of a flock of geese beating up wind to the marshes. These, too, went down among the rushes.

      Then the stars appeared and shone in the stillness, and there was silence in the great spaces of the

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