Jorkens Remembers Africa is a collection of fantasy short stories

Short Stories

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, narrated by Mr. Joseph Jorkens

Joseph Jorkens

Joseph Jorkens, usually referred to simply as Jorkens, is the lead character in over 150 short stories written by the Irish author Lord Dunsany between 1925 and 1957...

, by author Lord Dunsany

Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany

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. It was first published in New York

New York

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 by Longmans, Green & Co. in October, 1934

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, with the English edition (under the alternate title Mr. Jorkens Remembers Africa) following in November of the same year from the same publisher. It was the second collection of Dunsany's Jorkens tales to be published. It has also been issued in combination with the first book, The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens

The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens

The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens is a collection of fantasy short stories by author Lord Dunsany. It was first published in London by G. P. Putnam's Sons in April, 1931, with the American edition following in September of the same year from the same publisher. It was the first collection of...

, in the omnibus edition The Collected Jorkens, Volume One, published by Night Shade Books

Night Shade Books

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in 2004.

The book collects twenty-one short pieces by Dunsany.

Contents

• Preface
• "The Lost Romance"
• "The Curse of the Witch"
• "The Pearly Beach"
• "The Walk to Lingham"
• "The Escape from the Valley"
• "One August in the Red Sea"
• "The Bare Truth"
• "What Jorkens Has to Put Up With"
• "Ozymandias"
• "At the End of the Universe"
• "The Black Mamba"
• "In the Garden of Memories"
• "The Slugly Beast"
• "Earth's Secret"
• "The Persian Spell"
• "Stranger Than Fiction"
• "The Golden Gods"
• "The Correct Kit"
• "How Ryan Got out of Russia"
• "The Club Secretary"
• "A Mystery of the East"