Description
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* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Machen’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* ALL four novels, with individual contents tables
* Rare novels like THE GREEN ROUND appear here for the first time in digital print
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare short story collections like THE CHRONICLE OF CLEMENDY, appearing in print for the first time in many years
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories
* Rare uncollected tales – over 110 grisly Machen stories for you to explore
* Easily locate the short stories you want to read
* Includes Machen’s letters – spend hours exploring the author’s personal correspondence
* Special criticism section, with Starrett’s seminal essay evaluating Machen’s contribution to literature
* Features Machen’s first autobiography – discover the author’s early life and first inspirations
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
Please note: ‘The House of the Hidden Light’ cannot appear in this collection due to being published for the first time in 2003 and therefore not being in the public domain. Once new texts enter the public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update.
CONTENTS:
The Novels
THE HILL OF DREAMS
THE TERROR
THE SECRET GLORY
THE GREEN ROUND
The Shorter Fiction
THE CHRONICLE OF CLEMENDY: OR THE HISTORY OF THE IX JOYOUS JOURNEYS. CARBONNEK
THE GREAT GOD PAN, AND THE INMOST LIGHT
THE THREE IMPOSTORS: OR THE TRANSMUTATIONS
THE HOUSE OF SOULS
THE ANGELS OF MONS
THE GREAT RETURN
THE SHINING PYRAMID, 1923
THE SHINING PYRAMID, 1924
THE GLORIOUS MYSTERY
ORNAMENTS IN JADE
THE COSY ROOM AND OTHER STORIES
THE CHILDREN OF THE POOL, AND OTHER STORIES
UNCOLLECTED TALES
The Short Stories
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS
The Non-Fiction
THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT, 1725-1798
THE ANATOMY OF TOBACCO
HIEROGLYPHICS
DR STIGGINS: HIS VIEWS AND PRINCIPLES
DOG AND DUCK
DREADS AND DROLLS
NOTES AND QUERIES
BRIDLES AND SPURS
MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS
The Letters
SELECTED LETTERS OF ARTHUR MACHEN
The Criticism
ARTHUR MACHEN: A NOVELIST OF ECSTASY AND SIN by Vincent Starrett
The Autobiography
FAR OFF THINGS
