The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories app for iPhone and iPad

“The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories” is a collection by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany). Many of the stories take place in Dunsanys invented world Pegana, a richly detailed world complete with recurring deities and heroes. Dunsanys work was a major influence on later science fiction and fantasy writers J. R. R. Tolkien and H. P. Lovecraft (among others).

“The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories” was first published in 1908. The full list of stories is as follows:

The Sword of Welleran
The Fall of Bubbulkund
The Kith of the Elf-Folk
The Highwayman
In the Twilight
The Ghosts
The Whirlpool
The Hurricane
The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth
The Lord of Cities
The Doom of La Traviata
On the Dry Land

HOW TO USE THE EBOOK:
You can read through the text with the following commands:
+When reading a chapter, swipe to the left to go to the next page.
+Swipe to the right to go to the previous page.
+Double-tap the screen to move to the beginning of a chapter.
+Click on Start where I left off... to continue reading at the point at which you last closed the eBook.

The eBook application allows you to change the texts font type, color and size as well as the color of the background. These settings will be saved when the application is closed and automatically applied when the eBook is opened again.

The application keeps track of your current position in the text as you read and saves this position when you close the application. Upon relaunching the application, you can easily resume reading at the position of this virtual bookmark.

These instructions are repeated in the eBook application.

Please note that when you first open a chapter, the application takes two or three seconds to perform certain initialization operations before the text appears. The same is true when you change font and/or color settings.

Languages: English

Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.2 Software Update
iPhone OS 3.0 Tested