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''The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens'' is a collection of fantasy short stories by writer 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 Dunsany's Jorkens tales to be published. It has also been issued in combination with the second book, ''Jorkens Remembers Africa'', in the omnibus edition ''The Collected Jorkens, Volume One'', published by Night Shade Books in 2004. The Jorkens stories are set in the London gentleman's or adventurer's club of which the title character is a member. They usually open with another member mentioning an interesting experience he has had; this rouses Jorkens, who in return for a whisky-and-soda (merely to "moisten his throat," you understand!) goes the other member one better with an extraordinary tall tale, supposedly from his own past. His stories often tip well over the boundaries of the plausible, into the realms of fantasy, horror, or even science fiction, and his auditors can never be quite sure what proportion of what he relates was truly experienced and to what degree he might have embellished. The initial Jorkens collection includes thirteen short pieces by Dunsany. ==Contents== * "Preface" * "The Tale of the Abu Laheeb" * "The King of Sarahb" * "How Jembu Played for Cambridge" * "The Charm against Thirst" * "Our Distant Cousins" * "A Large Diamond" * "A Queer Island" * "The Electric King" * "A Drink at a Running Stream" * "A Daughter of Rameses" * "The Showman" * "Mrs. Jorkens" * "The Witch of the Willows" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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