{"_id":"69be005e75d56fcc7b0eac09","title":"The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap","author":"Lord Dunsany","code":"the-coronation-of-mr-thomas-shap","publish_year":1911,"publish_source":"The Sketch","publish_edition":"Mar","words":1727,"image":"writing.jpg","image_alt":"A pen writing. Graphite filter","genres":["fantasy"],"description":"A salesman finds solace from his humdrum life in walks through parks where he dreams of a magical city.","blurb":"As he walked from the station, dreamy but wide awake, it suddenly struck him that the real Shap was not the one walking to Business in black and ugly clothes, but he who roamed along a jungle’s edge near the ramparts of an old and Eastern city that rose up sheer from the sand, and against which the desert lapped with one eternal wave.","unique_cover":"A man in a glittering world.","cover_source":"Sidney Sime","cover_link":"https://archive.org/details/bookofwonder00duns_0/page/104/mode/2up","rating":5,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}