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Jorkens Remembers Africa

US dust jacket for Jorkens Remembers Africa by Lord Dunsany
Author	Lord Dunsany
Language	English
Series	Jorkens
Genre	fantasy short stories
Publisher	Longmans, Green & Co.
Publication date	1934
Publication place	United States United Kingdom
Published in English	1934
Media type	Print (hardback)
Preceded by	The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens
Followed by	Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey

Jorkens Remembers Africa is a collection of fantasy short stories, narrated by Mr. Joseph Jorkens, by writer Lord Dunsany. It was first published in New York City by Longmans, Green & Co. in October, 1934, 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, in the omnibus edition The Collected Jorkens, Volume One, published by Night Shade Books 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"

References

• Joshi, S. T. (1993). Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. pp. 18–19. ISBN 0-8108-2714-X.

External links

• Jorkens Remembers Africa at Faded Page (Canada)

• 1934 short story collections
• Fantasy short story collections
• Short story collections by Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany