The king of Elfland's daughter (1924)

The border between an ordinary valley and Elfland becomes a place of longing, strange time and difficult belonging. Dunsany's language is ornate and musical, so this works best when you want to linger over sentences rather than hurry towards the next confrontation. The enchantment has the scale of a legend and the delicacy of a half-remembered dream. It is an entire romance, with no sequence to assemble afterwards.