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Dunsany
[ duhn-sey-nee ]
noun
- Edward John More·ton Drax Plun·kett [mawr, -tndraks-, pluhng, -ket, -kit, mohr, -], 18th Baron Lord Dunsany, 1878–1957, Irish dramatist, poet, and essayist.
Dunsany
/ dʌnˈseɪnɪ /
noun
- Dunsany, 18th Baron18781957MIrishTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: short-story writer 18th Baron, title of Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett. 1878–1957, Irish dramatist and short-story writer
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Since Mr. Plunkett — better known, to some, as the 21st Baron of Dunsany — inherited his 1,700 acre ancestral estate in 2011, he has cleared it of livestock and left one-third to revert to unmanaged forest, complete with a wild herd of native red deer.
Be sure not to miss Lord Dunsany’s criminous masterpiece, “The Two Bottles of Relish,” or Bob Shaw’s heartbreakingly beautiful science fiction masterpiece, “Light of Other Days.”
Benson’s engagingly written, but obvious whodunit, “The Blotting Book,” and, not least, Lord Dunsany’s novel about the twilight of wizardry, “The Charwoman’s Shadow.”
Huxley Dunsany, 38, said about 100 people used to pass through the Local, a cafe in Alameda, Calif., on the last Wednesday of every month for the vintage computing meet-ups he hosted.
Mr. Dunsany is passionate about bringing new people into the fold, especially those who lack a technical background or don’t fit the computer-nerd stereotype.
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