Collected Works Wharton, Edith: Complete Works | v.2.0 | Update 21 May 2017

[pynch]

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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[pynch]

Corrected the embedded fonts for support of the newly displayed ligatures in ADE and used the opportunity to change the cover. Those colours were a bit too much, dear.

[Tuxworx]

Hello Pynch, and thank you very much for The Complete Works of Edith Wharton. What a great contribution!

I noticed what appears to be an error in Uncollected Stories: the character's name in the first story is Mrs. Manstey, but the title you have in the book is "Mrs. Mansey's View." In your post describing the book you list the story as "Mrs. Manstey's View."

Regards,
Tuxworx

[pynch]

Thanks, Tuxworx, and welcome to Mobileread.

The wrong title will be corrected in a future update.

[Jellby]

Although this is a fancy edition, you might consider making it play more nicely with style changes, especially with the font.

In particular, I was quite disappointed when I saw that in my reader the inline TOCs came out completely off-center and inactive (no links), which means I have no way to go to some chapter but turning many pages. Now I opened the file with the calibre viewer and see that there are some ornaments which are actually the link, and my reader was probably overriding the font and displaying a large blank instead of the ornament, I'll try to disable that (if possible) next time I have the chance, but there are a couple of things you could also do:

a) Use SVG files, or different characters (an ad-hoc font that has ornaments in place of asterisk, dash, etc.), so that it at least look semi-nice without the font.

b) Put the whole chapter/book title in the link, so that one can use the link even if the ornament does not display.

[pynch]

I have proofed the novels and novellas (except for one) against the first editions (except for two):

• The Touchstone against the 1900 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• The Valley of Decision against the 1902 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• Sanctuary against the 1903 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• The House of Mirth against the 1905 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• Madame de Treymes against the 1907 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• Fruit of the Tree against the 1907 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• Ethan Frome against the 1911 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• The Reef against the 1912 D. Appleton and Company edition;

• The Custom of the Country against the 1913 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• Summer against the 1917 D. Appleton and Company edition;

• The Marne against the 1918 D. Appleton and Company edition;

• The Age of Innocence against the 1920 D. Appleton and Company edition;

• The Glimpses of the Moon against the 1922 D. Appleton and Company edition;

• A Son at the Front against the 1923 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• Old New York against the 1924 D. Appleton and Company edition;

• The Mother’s Recompense against the 1925 D. Appleton and Company edition;

• The Children against the 1928 D. Appleton and Company edition;

• Hudson River Bracketed against the 1929 D. Appleton and Company edition;

• The Gods Arrive against the 1932 D. Appleton and Company edition; and

• The Buccaneers and Fast and Loose against the 1993 University Press of Virginia edition.

About 4,500 mistakes and variants were corrected. The layout for the texts for which scans weren’t available the first time was corrected, and re-checked for the rest – including all paragraph breaks, of course. Please let me know if you find any mistakes.

The short stories will follow soon.

[pynch]

I have proofed the story collections against the first editions:

• The Greater Inclination against the 1899 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• Crucial Instances against the 1901 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• The Descent of Man and other stories against the 1904 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• The Hermit and the Wild Woman and other stories against the 1908 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• Tales of Men and Ghosts against the 1910 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• Xingu, and other Stories against the 1916 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition;

• Here and Beyond against the 1926 D. Appleton and Company edition;

• Certain People against the 1930 D. Appleton and Company edition;

• Human Nature against the 1933 D. Appleton and Company edition; and

• The World Over against the 1936 D. Appleton and Company edition.

Thousands of mistakes and variants were corrected. The previously missing “The Permanent Wave” is now included in The World Over. And there’s a new cover (with regards to Saul Bass).

[Aberlaine]

Astounding work you've done here Pynch,...Thanks again!!
Indeed,...The illustrations are brilliant,...Maxfield Parrish works there that I've never seen before!...and in colour ! So,..the heavy version for the tablet and light version on the Kobo.
Really thoughtful of you to have done that.