"Don Rodriguez - Chronicles of Shadow Valley" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dunsany Lord)

Title DON RODRIGUEZ CHRONICLES OF SHADOW VALLEY

Author LORD DUNSANY




CHRONOLOGY

After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the
reader of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they
tell of. Were it merely a matter of history there could be no
doubts about the period; but where magic is concerned, to however
slight an extent, there must always be some element of mystery,
arising partly out of ignorance and partly from the compulsion of
those oaths by which magic protects its precincts from the tiptoe
of curiosity.

Moreover, magic, even in small quantities, appears to affect time,
much as acids affect some metals, curiously changing its
substance, until dates seem to melt into a mercurial form that
renders them elusive even to the eye of the most watchful
historian.

It is the magic appearing in Chronicles III and IV that has
gravely affected the date, so that all I can tell the reader with
certainty of the period is that it fell in the later years of the
Golden Age in Spain.





CONTENTS


THE FIRST CHRONICLE
HOW HE MET AND SAID FAREWELL TO MINE HOST
OF THE DRAGON AND KNIGHT

THE SECOND CHRONICLE
HOW HE HIRED A MEMORABLE SERVANT

THE THIRD CHRONICLE
HOW HE CAME TO THE HOUSE OF WONDER

THE FOURTH CHRONICLE
HOW HE CAME TO THE MOUNTAINS OF THE SUN

THE FIFTH CHRONICLE