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Title: Don Rodriguez
Chronicles of Shadow Valley

Author: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, Dunsany

Posting Date: July 23, 2009 [EBook #4282]
Release Date: July, 2003
First Posted: December 30, 2001

Language: English

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DON RODRIGUEZ

CHRONICLES OF SHADOW VALLEY

By

LORD DUNSANY

To WILLIAM BEEBE

CHRONOLOGY

After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the reader
of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they tell of. Were
it merely a matter of history there could be no doubts about the
period; but where magic is concerned, to however slight an extent,
there must always be some element of mystery, arising partly out of
ignorance and partly from the compulsion of those oaths by which magic
protects its precincts from the tiptoe of curiosity.

Moreover, magic, even in small quantities, appears to affect time, much
as acids affect some metals, curiously changing its substance, until
dates seem to melt into a mercurial form that renders them elusive even
to the eye of the most watchful historian.

It is the magic appearing in Chronicles III and IV that has gravely
affected the date, so that all I can tell the reader with certainty of
the period is that it fell in the later years of the Golden Age in
Spain.

CONTENTS

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