My Project For 2005

I'm pretty sure that I've previously mentioned my obsession with the works of Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, and the fact that most it is now lamentably out of print.  As such, I've come up with a project for 2005:

I've decided to post one story from his 1915 short-story collection Fifty-One Tales on every Sunday of this year (especially fitting, since there are 51 Sundays in 2005).  The stories are rather short (generally about 200 to 250 words), and were originally written between 1909 and 1915 (with the majority completed by 1913), a period that's usually considered to be part of Dunsany's prime.  They are your typical Dunsany stories, showing an obsession with the ravages of time, a pessimistic view as to the fate of humanity, and a habit of anthromorphising various things (Fame, Time, the winds, &c.).

Since I'm also lazy, I'll be using the Project Gutenberg e-text as my source, rather than typing in all 138 pages from my copy.

The following is a list of the stories, as well as the date on which they will be posted:

Fifty-One Tales, by Lord Dunsany. Originally published by Elkin Matthews, London, 1915.

1. The Assignation (2005-01-02)
2. Charon (2005-01-09)
3. The Death of Pan (2005-01-16)
4. The Sphinx at Giza (2005-01-23)
5. The Hen (2005-01-30)
6. Wind and Fog (2005-02-06)
7. The Raft-Builders (2005-02-13)
8. The Workman (2005-02-20)
9. The Guest (2005-02-27)
10. Death and Odysseus (2005-03-06)
11. Death and the Orange (2005-03-13)
12. The Prayer of the Flowers (2005-03-20)
13. Time and the Tradesman (2005-03-27)
14. The Little City (2005-04-03)
15. The Unpasturable Fields (2005-04-10)
16. The Worm and the Angel (2005-04-17)
17. The Songless Country (2005-04-24)
18. The Latest Thing (2005-05-01)
19. The Demagogue and the Demi-monde (2005-05-08)
20. The Giant Poppy (2005-05-15)
21. Roses (2005-05-22)
22. The Man With the Golden Ear-rings (2005-05-29)
23. The Dream of King Karna-Vootra (2005-06-05)
24. The Storm (2005-06-12)
25. A Mistaken Identity (2005-06-19)
26. The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise (2005-06-26)
27. Alone the Immortals (2005-07-03)
28. A Moral Little Tale (2005-07-10)
29. The Return of Song (2005-07-17)
30. Spring In Town (2005-07-24)
31. How the Enemy Came to Thlūnrāna (2005-07-31)
32. A Losing Game (2005-08-07)
33. Taking Up Picadilly (2005-08-14)
34. After the Fire (2005-08-21)
35. The City (2005-08-28)
36. The Food of Death (2005-09-04)
37. The Lonely Idol (2005-09-11)
38. The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts) (2005-09-18)
39. The Reward (2005-09-25)
40. The Trouble in Leafy Green Street (2005-10-02)
41. The Mist (2005-10-09)
42. Furrow-Maker (2005-10-16)
43. Lobster Salad (2005-10-23)
44. The Return of the Exiles (2005-10-30)
45. Nature and Time (2005-11-06)
46. The Song of the Blackbird (2005-11-13)
47. The Messengers (2005-11-20)
48. The Three Tall Sons (2005-11-27)
49. Compromise (2005-12-04)
50. What We Have Come To (2005-12-11)
51. The Tomb of Pan (2005-12-18)