The young Don Rodriguez lives in Spain at the end of the Golden Age, without any experience of life, yet full of drive and passion, ready to challenge everyone and everything in order to gain it. And for an hidalgo of that era, experiences could be nothing other than Love and War.
His adventures in Don Rodriguez’s quest for the conquest of life unfold within a fairy-tale haze.
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (1878–1957) was born in England into an old Anglo-Irish aristocratic family.
He studied at Eton and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, and took part in both the Boer War and the First World War.
He spent half his life in England and the other half in Ireland.
He wrote high-quality fantasy literature without yielding to commercial trends or the spirit of the times, and is often regarded as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century fantasy literature, shaping its development up to the present day.
His influence extended to major writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and especially J. R. R. Tolkien.
He was extremely prolific, producing poetry, drama, short stories, novels, essays, criticism, autobiographical works, and lectures throughout a long literary career.
Among his works published in this series are The King of Elfland’s Daughter and The Adventures of Don Rodriguez.
And in fairy tales, anything can happen… The Adventures of Don Rodriguez is the first novel written by Lord Dunsany, one of the pioneering writers of fantasy and a great visionary.