Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

By Edith Wharton

Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton created a diverse body of works, featuring innovative novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction, demonstrating her inimitable wit and psychological insight. This comprehensive eBook offers readers the unique opportunity of exploring Edith Wharton’s complete works for the first time in publishing history. (Version 5)


Features:

* illustrated with many images relating to Wharton’s life and works

* annotated with concise introductions to the novels, novellas and other works

* ALL 18 novels, each with contents tables

* INCLUDES the rare first novel FAST AND LOOSE, which Wharton wrote aged 14 – first time in digital print

* EVEN contains the Wharton’s unfinished novel THE BUCCANEERS, available nowhere else

* images of how the novels first appeared, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* ALL 12 short story collections, with RARE uncollected tales available nowhere else

* separate chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories – find that special story easily!

* the war novella THE MARNE, first time in digital print

* EVEN includes Wharton’s rare non-fiction texts, including THE DECORATION OF HOUSES, her groundbreaking manual on interior design – fully illustrated

* ALSO includes Wharton’s European and African travel books, with numerous original illustrations

* includes Wharton’s play THE JOY OF LIVING, translated from German

* features the complete poetry with rare poems available for the first time in digital print

* also includes Wharton autobiography A BACKWARD GLANCE – explore her amazing literary life

* scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres, allowing easy navigation around Wharton’s immense oeuvre


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CONTENTS:


The Novels

Fast And Loose

The Valley Of Decision

Sanctuary

The House of Mirth

The fruit of THE TREE

Ethan Frome

The Reef

The custom of the country

Summer

The age of innocence

The glimpses of the moon

A son at the front

The mother’s recompense

Twilight sleep

The Children

Hudson River Bracketed

The Gods Arrive

The Buccaneers


The Novellas

The Touchstone

Madame de treymes

The marne

Old new york

False dawn

The old maid

The spark

New year’s day


The Short Story Collections

The Greater Inclination

Crucial Instances

The descent of man and other stories

The hermit and the wild woman and stories

Tales of men and ghosts

Uncollected early short stories

Xingu and other stories

Here and beyond

Certain people

Human nature

The world over

Ghosts


The Short Stories

List of stories in chronological order

List of stories in alphabetical order


The Play

The Joy Of Living


The Poetry

Artemis to Actaeon and other verses

Uncollected poetry

Alphabetical list of poems


The Non-Fiction

THE DECORATION OF HOUSES

Italian villas and their gardens

Italian Backgrounds

A Motor-Flight Through France

France, From Dunkerque To Belfort

French ways and their meaning

In Morocco

The Writing Of Fiction


The Biography

A Backward Glance


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Book Details

  • Country: US
  • Published: 2013-11-17
  • Publisher: Delphi Classics
  • Author(s):Edith Wharton
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 3491
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