Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Fantastic Fiction

Authors: Lord Dunsany In Year : 1922

Book Language: English

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The First Chronicle: How He Met and Said Farewell to Mine Host of The Dragon and Knight
The Second Chronicle: How He Hired a Memorable Servant
The Third Chronicle: How He Came to The House of Wonder
The Fourth Chronicle: How He Came to The Mountains of the Sun
The Fifth Chronicle: How He Rode in the Twilight and Saw Serafina
The Sixth Chronicle: How He Sang to his Mandolin and What Came of his Singing
The Seventh Chronicle: How He Came to Shadow Valley
The Eighth Chronicle: How He Travelled Far
The Ninth Chronicle: How He Won a Castle in Spain
The Tenth Chronicle: How He Came Back to Lowlight
The Eleventh Chronicle: How He Turned to Gardening and His Sword Rested
The Twelfth Chronicle: The Building of Castle Rodriguez and The Ending of These Chronicles

A coming of age story blended with a swashbuckling road trip through an mythical "golden age" of Spain. The titular character is excluded from the inheritance of the family castle on the grounds that given his expertise with sword and mandolin he should be able to win his own estate and bride. Setting out to achieve his place in the world, Rodriguez quickly acquires a Sancho Panza-like servant, Morano, and goes on to experience a series of adventures, often humorous, en route to his goal. Lord Dunsany, well known as an influence on J.R.R. Tolkein, H.P. Lovecraft, Ursula Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, and others, creates a world in which anything is possible, and all outcomes serve poetry and wonder first. (Wikipedia and Ed Humpal)