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Excerpt from Changeling: And Other StoriesAll eyes in the court-room were turned to the prisoner in the dock. And there was in the sordid trial chamber a sense of great disturbance in the air, though, from the minds and personalities of all gathered there, there rose in gray tendrils a haze of doubt, of disbelief, of mystery.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Changeling and Other Stories contains the following short stories: Changeling, The Barnacle Goose, Belfasters, The Keeper of the Bridge, In Praise of Lady Margery Kyteler, Reynardine, Dramatis Personae, Wisdom Buildeth Her House, The Parliment at Thebes, Delilah, Now It Was Dusk, A Quatrain of Ling Tai Fu's, "Irish", By Ordeal of Justice. Many of the stories deal with exotic and mystical locales and have a fairy tale quality. So Celtic in feeling and atmosphere are the stories of Donn Byrne that many of his devotees have come to believe that he never lived anywhere but in Ireland. Actually, Donn Byrne was born in New York City. Shortly after his birth, however, his parents took him back to the land of his forefathers. There he was educated and came to know the people of whom he wrote so magically. At Dublin University his love for the Irish language and for a good fight won him many prizes, first as a writer in Gaelic and second as the University's lightweight boxing champion. After continuing his studies at the Sorbonne and the University of Leipzig, he returned to the United States, where, in 1911, he married and established a home in Brooklyn Heights. He earned his living, while trying to write short stories, as an editor of dictionaries. Soon his tales began to attract attention and he added to his collection of boxing prizes many others won in short-story contests. When Messer Marco Polo appeared in 1921 his reputation in the literary world was firmly established. Thereafter, whatever he wrote was hailed enthusiastically by his ever-growing public, until 1928, when his tragic death in an automobile accident cut short the career of one of America's best-loved story-tellers.

Excerpt from Changeling: And Other StoriesAll eyes in the court-room were turned to the prisoner in the dock. And there was in the sordid trial chamber a sense of great disturbance in the air, though, from the minds and personalities of all gathered there, there rose in gray tendrils a haze of doubt, of disbelief, of mystery.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Donn Byrne, born Brian Oswald Patrick Donn-Byrne, (1889-1928) was an Irish novelist. He was born in New York City where his Irish parents were on a business trip but soon after returned to Ireland, growing up in Camlough, Co Antrim, where he became equally fluent in Irish and English, acquiring a keen interest in Irish history and nationalism from an early age. He attended the University of Dublin where he studied Romance languages and had some pieces published in The National Student magazine, continuing his studies in Europe after graduation. In 1911 he returned to New York where he initially worked in publishing before selling his own stories to various magazines, some of which were anthologised in his first book Stories Without Women (1915). His first novel The Stranger's Banquet was published in 1919 and from that time on he became a prolific novelist and short story writer, his later work in particular capturing the mythical and pastoral beauty of Ireland and her history. Despite his increasing popularity and his wife's success as a playwright, financial concerns forced the family to sell their house in Riverside, Connecticut, and return to Ireland where they later purchased Coolmain Castle near Bandon in Co Cork. Byrne died in a car accident in 1928 and his headstone reads in Irish and English "I am in my sleeping and don't waken me." This second collection of stories was first published in 1923.