Lord Dunsany

The Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany

The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Peg?na. It was followed by a further collection, Time and the Gods, and by some stories in The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories and possibly in Tales of Three Hemispheres. The book contains a range of illustrations by Sidney Sime, the originals of all of which can be seen at Dunsany Castle. In 1919 Dunsany told an American interviewer: "In The Gods of Peg?na I tried to account for the ocean and the moon. I don't know whether anyone else has ever tried that before". Aside from its various stand-alone editions, the complete text of the collection is included in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy collection Beyond the Fields We Know (1972), in The Complete Peg?na (1998), and in the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks omnibus Time and the Gods (2000).