# Fifty-One Tales — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany.

- [The Assignation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-assignation.md): The poet creates enduring songs for Fame, but she prefers the ephemeral garlands of the crowd. When he rebukes her, she promises to meet him in a graveyard in a hundred years.
- [Charon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/charon.md): Charon, the ferryman of the dead, rows endlessly across the grey river, burdened by an eternal weariness. The dead come in unprecedented numbers, then suddenly stop. A single, last man arrives, and after being ferried to
- [The Death of Pan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-death-of-pan.md): Travellers from London enter Arcady and lament the death of Pan, finding him stiff and still. As they stand mournfully by his body, Arcadian maidens arrive and laugh at the sight, causing Pan to leap up and pursue them, 
- [The Sphinx at Giza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-sphinx-at-giza.md): The narrator observes the Sphinx's painted face and her flirtation with Time, hoping she will lure his secret from him so that humanity can blind and enslave Time, preventing him from destroying beautiful things. The cha
- [The Hen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-hen.md): A hen, inspired by the swallows' annual migration south, attempts her own journey but only reaches the garden at the end of the road. Upon returning, she describes her limited travels as a grand adventure, and the poultr

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- [Wind and Fog](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/wind-and-fog.md)
- [The Raft-Builders](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-raft-builders.md)
- [The Workman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-workman.md)
- [The Guest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-guest.md)
- [Death and Odysseus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/death-and-odysseus.md)
- [Death and the Orange](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/death-and-the-orange.md)
- [The Prayer of the Flowers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-prayer-of-the-flowers.md)
- [Time and the Tradesman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/time-and-the-tradesman.md)
- [The Little City](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-little-city.md)
- [The Unpasturable Fields](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-unpasturable-fields.md)
- [The Worm and the Angel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-worm-and-the-angel.md)
- [The Songless Country](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-songless-country.md)
- [The Latest Thing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-latest-thing.md)
- [The Demagogue and the Demimonde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-demagogue-and-the-demimonde.md)
- [The Giant Poppy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-giant-poppy.md)
- [Roses](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/roses.md)
- [The Man with the Golden Earrings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-man-with-the-golden-earrings.md)
- [The Dream of King Karna-Vootra](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-dream-of-king-karna-vootra.md)
- [The Storm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-storm.md)
- [A Mistaken Identity](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/a-mistaken-identity.md)
- [The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-true-history-of-the-hare-and-the-tortoise.md)
- [Alone the Immortals](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/alone-the-immortals.md)
- [A Moral Little Tale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/a-moral-little-tale.md)
- [The Return of Song](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-return-of-song.md)
- [Spring in Town](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/spring-in-town.md)
- [How the Enemy Came to Thlūnrāna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/how-the-enemy-came-to-thl-nr-na.md)
- [A Losing Game](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/a-losing-game.md)
- [Taking Up Picadilly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/taking-up-picadilly.md)
- [After the Fire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/after-the-fire.md)
- [The City](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-city.md)
- [The Food of Death](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-food-of-death.md)
- [The Lonely Idol](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-lonely-idol.md)
- [The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-sphinx-in-thebes-massachusetts.md)
- [The Reward](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-reward.md)
- [The Trouble in Leafy Green Street](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-trouble-in-leafy-green-street.md)
- [The Mist](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-mist.md)
- [Furrow-Maker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/furrow-maker.md)
- [Lobster Salad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/lobster-salad.md)
- [The Return of the Exiles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-return-of-the-exiles.md)
- [Nature and Time](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/nature-and-time.md)
- [The Song of the Blackbird](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-song-of-the-blackbird.md)
- [The Messengers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-messengers.md)
- [The Three Tall Sons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-three-tall-sons.md)
- [Compromise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/compromise.md)
- [What We Have Come To](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/what-we-have-come-to.md)
- [The Tomb of Pan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-tomb-of-pan.md)
- [The Poet Speaks with Earth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-poet-speaks-with-earth.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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