About the book: year / The texts of this collection reflect the patriotic spirit that reigned in English literature in 1914–1916. From the point of view of “pure art,” Dunsany is still effective, but the narrowing of the subject matter has not passed without a trace. Perhaps the most outdated book of the writer, which is nevertheless of significant historical and cultural interest. This is not magazine literature, but original lyrics, “prose poems” of wartime.