Lord Dunsany: Reading and Discussion Questions

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General

• Different Yet Similar
• Pride and Greed
• Do the Means Justify the End?
• Women's roles in the world
• Dominant and Dominated Dragon

"Chu-Bu and Sheemish"

• Pride and Subjugation
• Silly Little Gods
• The Mundane vs. The Fantastic
• Rivalry and its Consequences
• The Almighty Gods Chu-Bu and Sheemish
• The Inescapable Folly

"The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap"

• A Sane Man's Insanity

"Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller"

• Communicating the Moral in the "Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller"
• Beginning at the End

"The Hoard of the Gibbelins"

• Real Moral Instruction
• Of Gibbelins and Men
• Horse in Dragon's Clothing ("The Hoard of the Gibbelins")
• Avarice in Lord Dunsany's Book of Wonder
• The True Monsters in "The Hoard of the Gibbelins": a Social Critique by Dunsany
• The Fate of the Gluttons

How Nuth Would have Practiced His Art Upon the Gnoles"

• Man or Beast, Who is the Monster?
• Dead Burglars

"Miss Cubbidge and The Dragon of Romance"

• The Book of Wonder: What has Dunsany Dun Now?

"The Wonderful Window"

• A Window of Great Worth?
• The World Through the Wonderful Window

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