Publisher's Synopsis
Time and the Gods was written by Anglo-Irish writer, nobleman, chess champion, and dramatist Edward Plunkett, 13th Lord of Dunsany, and was originally published in the United States in 1913.The work is Lord Dunsany's second book, and is considered a major influence on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, amongst others. It is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's pantheon of deities who dwell in the realm of Pegana, previously laid out in his collection of stories "The Gods of Pegana". The title of the story is thought to have been influeced by Algernon Swinburne, who wrote the line "Time and the Gods are at strife" in his 1866 poem "Hymn to Proserpine".
