This volume collects the complete writings of Edith Wharton (1862–1937,
Wikipedia): 22 novels and novellas, 11 story collections with 86 stories, 2 collections of poetry, and 9 non-fiction books. Here’s what you’ll find inside:
NOVELS.
Fast and Loose.
The Touchstone.
The Valley of Decision.
Sanctuary.
The House of Mirth.
Madame de Treymes.
Fruit of the Tree.
Ethan Frome.
The Reef.
The Custom of the Country.
Summer.
The Marne.
The Age of Innocence.
The Glimpses of the Moon.
A Son at the Front.
Old New York.
The Mother’s Recompense.
Twilight Sleep.
The Children.
Hudson River Bracketed.
The Gods Arrive.
The Buccaneers.
STORIES.
The Greater Inclination: The Muse's Tragedy, A Journey, The Pelican, Souls Belated, A Coward, The Twilight of the God, A Cup of Cold Water, The Portrait
Crucial Instances: The Duchess at Prayer, The Angel at the Grave, The Recovery, “Copy”: A Dialogue, The Rembrandt, The Moving Finger, The Confessional
The Descent of Man, and Other Stories: The Descent of Man, The Other Two, Expiation, The Lady’s Maid’s Bell, The Mission of Jane, The Reckoning, The Letter, The Dilettante, The Quicksand, A Venetian Night’s Entertainment
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories: The Hermit and the Wild Woman, The Last Asset, In Trust, The Pretext, The Verdict, The Pot-Boiler, The Best Man
Tales of Men and Ghosts: The Bolted Door, His Father’s Son, The Daunt Diana, The Debt, Full Circle, The Legend, The Eyes, The Blond Beast, Afterward, The Letters
Xingu, and Other Stories: Xingu, The Choice, Coming Home, The Triumph of Night, Kerfol, Autres Temps ..., The Long Run, Bunner Sisters
Here and Beyond: Miss Mary Pask, The Young Gentlemen, Bewitched, The Seed of the Faith, The Temperate Zone, Velvet Ear-Pads
Certain People: Atrophy, A Bottle of Perrier, After Holbein, Dieu d’amour, The Refugees, Mr. Jones
Human Nature: Her Son, The Day of the Funeral, A Glimpse, Joy in the House, Diagnosis
The World Over: Charm Incorporated, Pomegranate Seed, Confession, Roman Fever, The Looking Glass, Duration
11 Uncollected Stories: Mrs. Manstey's View, The Fulness of Life, The Lamp of Psyche, That Good May Come, The Valley of Childish Things, and Other Emblems, April Showers, The Line of Least Resistance, The House of the Dead Hand, The Introducers, Les Metteurs en Scene, Writing a War Story, All Souls
POEMS.
Artemis to Actæon, and Other Verse.
32 Uncollected Poems.
NON-FICTION.
The Decoration of Houses.
Italian Villas and Their Gardens.
Italian Backgrounds.
A Motor-Flight through France.
Fighting France from Dunkerque to Belport
French Ways and Their Meaning.
In Morocco.
The Writing of Fiction.
A Backward Glance.
I have thoroughly checked and corrected the formatting, comparing it to print editions wherever available (= all pre-1923 publications). Quotes are curly, footnotes are active, fonts are embedded for small caps, special characters, titles, and chapter headings.
All italics (I hope) have been restored, by converting upper case letters to italics or, if they weren’t present at all, by checking the texts against the paper books. French and Italian accents have also been corrected.
The collection is sorted chronologically by literary genres. There are the usual inline tables of contents and links after each text/chapter to get back to the respective tables. An alphabetical index of stories is also provided. Dates of first publication can be found at the end of the stories.
Two poetry collections, “Verses” and “Twelve Poems” weren’t available, but some of those poems are in the “Uncollected Poems” section. Of the stories, I have transcribed and proof-read “Les metteurs en scène” (her only story written in French) myself, but couldn’t find “Friends” and “Permanent Wave” (see update v.2.0) anywhere. If any of these resurface, I’ll update the volume.
All the books come with their original illustrations (the paintings for “Italian Villas and their Gardens” are
marvelous!). As most of the 242 images can be found in the non-fiction books, which are only of secondary interest to some while increasing the file size enormously, I’ve prepared a light version of this edition that only contains the fictional writings. So, choose for yourselves, but, again, the paintings for “Italian Villas and their Gardens” are
mar-ve-lous!
This was fun, so I hope you’ll enjoy it.
Best,
pynch.
PS: This is a
fancy edition. Changing the stylesheet is, therefore,
verboten.
Update v.1.1 | 18 Dec 2012.
Corrected the embedded fonts for support of the newly displayed ligatures in ADE and changed the cover.
Update v.1.2 | 3 Apr 2016.
Proofed the novels and novellas (except for one) against the first editions (except for two) and corrected the layout of the texts for which scans weren’t available the first time.
Update v.2.0 | 21 May 2017.
Proofed the story collections against the first editions, added the previously missing “The Permanent Wave,” and corrected thousands of mistakes and variants.
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