An Annotated GODS OF PEGANA

So, yesterday I came across a new edition of Dunsany's first book, THE GODS OF PEGANA (original edition 1905, this edition 2012).  What I cd put together about it from some quick online searching was a bit uncertain, but here's what I cd find on it so far.

Put together by a Robert J. Schulenburg, whose work is otherwise unknown to me. It is said to be the first book in a series to be known as The Reader's Library of Inspirational Books; I have not yet tracked down any other volumes in the series.

Whether this has any linkage with Dolly Parton's Inspiration Library I can't say yet.  

 This edition for the Kindle includes promises it includes additional material:

-An Introduction to the series

-The biographical essay, 'Lord Dunsany: Badass Patriarch of High Fantasy'

-An original article, 'Dunsany's Chess' detailing the rules for the chess variant created by the author

-High quality formatting and interactive Table Of Contents for Kindle users


Future editions of this volume will include (and will be added to [my] purchase free of charge):

-The essay: "Writing A Bible- Scripture As Narrative And Fiction, And Why We Would Confuse It For Fantasy

-Table of Influenced & Influences

-A Lexicon of gods and prophets in the Peganan cosmology

-The chapters in summary (a distillation of the themes and messages of each Book)

-A timeline of the Peganan cosmology

-A map of the cosmology of Pegana

-Hiqh quality original illustrations

I have to say that this looks like a random assortment for things connected with Dunsany.

I've ordered a copy and shd have more information about the book after the book arrives.

--John R,

current reading: THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH (just out)  by Phillip Pullman. A re-reading and a disappointment.  And a complete collection of short stories by Aleister Crowley of short stories featuring Simon Iff, his psychic detectiv (re-reading; not as good the second time around).