Delphi Collected 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 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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