Delphi Complete Works Of Mary Webb Illustrated

The interwar English novelist and poet Mary Webb is best known for her masterpiece ‘Precious Bane’ and for her lyrical style, conveying a rich and intense impression of her beloved Shropshire countryside home. Though in her lifetime her novels suffered neglect, a reappraisal of her work after her early death has drawn comparisons with the works of Thomas Hardy, sharing a love of nature and a sense of impending doom. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Webb’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Webb’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All the novels, with individual contents tables * Features the unfinished novel * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories and poems available in no other collection * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry and the short stories * Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read * Includes Webb’s rare essays and reviews – digitised here for the first time * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Novels The Golden Arrow (1916) Gone to Earth (1917) The House in Dormer Forest (1920) Seven for a Secret (1922) Precious Bane (1924) Armour Wherein He Trusted (1929) The Short Stories Stories from ‘Armour Wherein He Trusted’ (1929) Uncollected Short Stories The Poetry Collections Poems and the Spring of Joy (1928) Fifty-One Poems (1947) Uncollected Poems The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Spring of Joy (1917) Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews

Virginia Woolf was one of the foremost authors of the twentieth century, whose ground-breaking novels and essays had a profound impact on modernist literature. This eBook presents the collected works of Virginia Woolf, complemented with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 10) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Woolf’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 6 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * The rare play penned by Woolf * A wide selection of non-fiction * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * Updated with 2 novels and many rare essays Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, later works cannot appear in this edition. When new texts become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Novels The Voyage Out (1915) Night and Day (1919) Jacob’s Room (1922) Mrs. Dalloway (1925) To the Lighthouse (1927) Orlando (1928) The Short Stories The Short Stories of Virginia Woolf The Play Freshwater (1923) The Non-Fiction The Common Reader: First Series (1925) A Room of One’s Own (1929) On Being Ill (1930) London Essays (1931) The Common Reader: Second Series (1932) Walter Sickert: A Conversation (1934) Miscellaneous Essays

One of the greatest writers of his time, G. K. Chesterton’s short stories, novels, poetry and essays demonstrate his unparalleled versatility in literature. This comprehensive eBook offers readers the complete fictional works of G. K. Chesterton, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) Features: * concise introductions to the novels and other works * the complete Father Brown stories, including the very rare stories * the original Father Brown illustrations * ALL the novels, with contents tables * images of how the novels first appeared, giving your eReader a taste of the Edwardian texts * special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * rare plays and poetry * features 43 non-fiction books, each with contents tables * unique uncollected essays section, with rare articles by the great essayist * includes Chesterton’s autobiography– explore the writer’s literary life! * features a special criticism section, with four works examining Chesterton’s contribution to literature, including Patrick Braybrooke’s seminal work GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON * many images relating to Chesterton’s life, works, places and film adaptations * scholarly ordering of texts in chronological order and literary genres, allowing easy navigation around Chesterton’s immense oeuvre Please note: due to copyright restrictions and the scarcity of some minor texts, this is a complete FICTIONAL works of Chesterton, with the almost complete non-fiction works. As soon as more texts become available, they will be added as free updates for customers who have already purchased this eBook. CONTENTS: Father Brown Stories THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN THE WISDOM OF FATHER BROWN THE INCREDULITY OF FATHER BROWN THE SECRET OF FATHER BROWN THE SCANDAL OF FATHER BROWN UNCOLLECTED FATHER BROWN STORIES Index of Father Brown Stories The Novels THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY THE BALL AND THE CROSS MANALIVE THE FLYING INN THE RETURN OF DON QUIXOTE Short Story Collections THE CLUB OF QUEER TRADES THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH AND OTHER STORIES TALES OF THE LONG BOW THE POET AND THE LUNATICS FOUR FAULTLESS FELONS THE PARADOXES OF MR. POND UNCOLLECTED SHORT STORIES The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Plays MAGIC THE JUDGMENT OF DR. JOHNSON THE TURKEY AND THE TURK The Poetry Collections GREYBEARDS AT PLAY THE WILD KNIGHT AND OTHER POEMS THE BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE POEMS WINE, WATER AND SONG THE BALLAD OF ST. BARBARA AND OTHER POEMS GLORIA IN PROFUNDIS UBI ECCLESIA THE GRAVE OF ARTHUR The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Non-Fiction THE DEFENDANT ROBERT BROWNING TWELVE TYPES HERETICS VARIED TYPES CHARLES DICKENS ALL THINGS CONSIDERED TREMENDOUS TRIFLES ORTHODOXY WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE WORLD GEORGE BERNARD SHAW APPRECIATIONS AND CRITICISMS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS ALARMS AND DISCURSIONS A MISCELLANY OF MEN THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE THE APPETITE OF TYRANNY THE CRIMES OF ENGLAND LORD KITCHENER UTOPIA OF USURERS AND OTHER ESSAYS A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND IRISH IMPRESSIONS THE SUPERSTITION OF DIVORCE THE NEW JERUSALEM WHAT I SAW IN AMERICA EUGENICS AND OTHER EVILS ST. FRANCIS FANCIES VERSUS FADS THE EVERLASTING MAN WILLIAM COBBETT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CONVERSION THE OUTLINE OF SANITY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON DO WE AGREE? THE THING COME TO THINK OF IT ALL IS GRIST ST. THOMAS AQUINAS ALL I SURVEY: A BOOK OF ESSAYS THE WELL AND THE SHALLOWS THE GLASS WALKING STICK AS I WAS SAYING THE COMMON MAN THE SPICE OF LIFE THE APOSTLE AND THE WILD DUCKS AND OTHER ESSAYS UNCOLLECTED ESSAYS The Criticism MR. G.K. CHESTERTON AND MR. HILAIRE BELLOC by Robert Lynd G. K. CHESTERTON, A CRITICAL STUDY by Julius West and more

Callistratus was a sophist and rhetorician, who likely flourished in the third century AD. He composed fourteen descriptions of works in stone or brass by notable artists. The text reveals an interest in rhetorical skill, displaying the writers’ powers of description, while offering an interesting insight into how ancient artists treated their subjects. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Greek texts. This eBook presents Callistratus’ complete extant works, with illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Callistratus * Features the complete extant works of Callistratus, in both English translation and the original Greek * Concise introduction * Includes Arthur Fairbanks’ 1931 translation, previously appearing in the Loeb Classical Library * Images of famous artworks connected to Callistratus * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the sections you want to read with individual contents tables * Provides a special dual English and Greek text, allowing readers to compare the sections paragraph by paragraph — ideal for students * Features Fairbanks’ introduction — discover Callistratus’ ancient world CONTENTS: The Translation Descriptions The Greek Text Contents of the Greek Text The Dual Text Dual Greek and English Text The Biography Introduction to Callistratus (1931) by Arthur Fairbanks

The English interwar writer Arthur Ransome, best known for the ‘Swallows and Amazons’ children’s books, is noted for popularising the pattern for “holiday adventure” stories. A writer of various genres, his first success, ‘Bohemia in London’, is a partly autobiographical account of his early days. He also published a noted general ‘History of Story-Telling’, as well as landmark critical works on Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde. During the Great War, Ransome worked as a war correspondent in Russia, where he studied native folktales, which he retold for children. He also wrote extensively about his passion of angling, producing the seminal work in its field, ‘Rod and Line’. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Ransome’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ransome’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * All the ‘Swallows and Amazons’ novels, with individual contents tables * Includes Ransome’s original illustrations to the novels * Many rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories available in no other collection * Includes Ransome’s rare non-fiction works * Features the celebrated autobiography – discover Ransome’s intriguing life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Swallows and Amazons Books Swallows and Amazons (1930) Swallowdale (1931) Peter Duck (1932) Winter Holiday (1933) Coot Club (1934) Pigeon Post (1936) We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea (1937) Secret Water (1939) The Big Six (1940) Missee Lee (1941) The Picts and the Martyrs (1943) Great Northern? (1947) Other Children’s Books The Child’s Book of the Seasons (1906) Pond and Stream (1906) The Things in our Garden (1906) The Hoofmarks of the Faun (1911) Old Peter’s Russian Tales (1916) Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme (1920) The Soldier and Death (1922) The Horror Novel The Elixir of Life (1915) The Short Stories Miscellaneous Stories The Non-Fiction The Souls of the Streets and Other Little Papers (1904) Bohemia in London (1907) A History of Story-telling (1909) Edgar Allan Poe (1910) Oscar Wilde (1912) Portraits and Speculations (1913) Six Weeks in Russia (1919) The Crisis in Russia (1921) Racundra’s First Cruise (1923) Rod and Line (1929) Racundra’s Third Cruise (1972) The Autobiography The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome (1976)

The girl who was to be named Phillis Wheatley was captured in West Africa in 1761 and taken to Boston by slave traders. She proved to be a precocious child and by the age of eighteen, she had produced a collection of impressive poems. With the 1773 publication of ‘Poems on Various Subjects’, Wheatley became the most famous African on the face of the earth. Today, critics regard her work as fundamental to the genre of African-American literature, and she is honoured as the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry and the first to make a living from her writing. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Wheatley’s complete works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wheatley’s life and works * Concise introduction to Wheatley’s life and poetry * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Rare miscellaneous poems printed in magazines * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Wheatley’s letters * Features a bonus biography — discover Wheatley’s incredible life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Phillis Wheatley Brief Introduction: Phillis Wheatley Complete Poetical Works of Phillis Wheatley The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Letters The Letters of Phillis Wheatley The Biography Phillis Wheatley (1918) by Benjamin Brawley Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set

The English novelist Dorothy M. Richardson was a modernist pioneer of stream-of-consciousness fiction. Her novel sequence ‘Pilgrimage’ is an extraordinarily sensitive story, portrayed cinematically through the eyes of Miriam Henderson, an attractive and mystical New Woman. The unfinished 13-volume novel is now considered a significant work of literary modernism, exploring new formal methods to represent feminine consciousness. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Richardson’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, detailed introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Richardson’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 13 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare works appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The complete short stories * Rare poems from periodicals, available in no other collection * Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read * Explore Richardson’s non-fiction * Includes Richardson’s rare autobiographical pieces – available in no other collection * Special criticism section, with essays by Sinclair, Woolf and Lawrence, evaluating Richardson’s contribution to literature * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: Pilgrimage Pointed Roofs (1915) Backwater (1916) Honeycomb (1917) The Tunnel (1918) Interim (1919) Deadlock (1921) Revolving Lights (1923) The Trap (1925) Oberland (1927) Dawn’s Left Hand (1931) Clear Horizon (1935) Dimple Hill (1938) March Moonlight (1967) The Short Stories The Short Stories of Dorothy Richardson The Poetry The Poems of Dorothy Richardson The Non-Fiction The Quakers: Past and Present (1914) Gleanings from the Works of George Fox (1914) About Punctuation (1924) John Austen and the Inseparables (1930) The Autobiographical Pieces Autobiographical Sketches The Criticism The Novels of Dorothy Richardson (1918) by May Sinclair Review of ‘The Tunnel’ (1919) by Virginia Woolf The Future of the Novel (1923) by D. H. Lawrence Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

An American best-selling author of the early twentieth century, Winston Churchill wrote the historical novel ‘Richard Carvel’, which was a huge phenomenon on its 1899 publication, selling two million copies at a time when the U.S. population was only 76 million. The book launched Churchill’s career and was followed by a series of meticulously-researched historical novels that were tremendously popular in the 1900’s and 1910’s. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Churchill’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts and informative introductions. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Churchill’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All 10 novels, with individual contents tables * Features the rare short story ‘Faith of Frances Craniford’, appearing here for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The complete plays * Rare poems available in no other collection * Includes Churchill’s non-fiction * The rare Christian study ‘The Uncharted Way’, first time in digital publishing * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Novels The Celebrity (1898) Richard Carvel (1899) The Crisis (1901) The Crossing (1904) Coniston (1906) Mr. Crewe’s Career (1908) A Modern Chronicle (1910) The Inside of the Cup (1913) A Far Country (1915) The Dwelling-Place of Light (1917) The Short Stories Mr. Keegan’s Elopement (1896) Faith of Frances Craniford (1917) The Plays The Title Mart (1905) Dr. Jonathan (1919) The Poetry The Poems of Winston Churchill The Non-Fiction A Traveller in War-Time (1918) An Essay on the American Contribution and the Democratic Idea (1918) The Uncharted Way (1940)