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 most complete edition of Wharton’s works possible in the US, with rare works, numerous images and the usual Delphi bonus material.
Features:
* the most complete collection possible for US readers
* illustrated with many images relating to Wharton’s life and works
* annotated with concise introductions to the novels, novellas and other works
* 10 novels each with contents tables
* images of how the novels first appeared, giving your EReader a taste of the original texts
* ALL the pre-1923 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
* scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres, allowing easy navigation around Wharton’s immense oeuvre
* UPDATED with two new works now available in public domain: 'A Son at the Front' and 'Old New York'
Please note: we aim to provide the most comprehensive author collections available to eReader readers. To comply with US copyright restrictions, seven novels, six short story collections and Wharton’s autobiography are not in this US version. Once later works enter the US public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update.
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The Novels
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
The Novellas
THE TOUCHSTONE
MADAME DE TREYMES
THE MARNE
The Short Story Collections
THE GREATER INCLINATION
CRUCIAL INSTANCES
THE DESCENT OF MAN AND OTHER STORIES
THE HERMIT AND THE WILD WOMAN AND OTHER STORIES
TALES OF MEN AND GHOSTS
UNCOLLECTED EARLY SHORT STORIES
XINGU AND OTHER STORIES
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 THE COMPLETE 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
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