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 genresCONTENTS:The NovelsThe 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 StoriesStories from 'Armour Wherein He Trusted' (1929)Uncollected Short StoriesThe Poetry CollectionsPoems and the Spring of Joy (1928)Fifty-One Poems (1947)Uncollected PoemsThe PoemsList of Poems in Chronological OrderList of Poems in Alphabetical OrderThe Non-FictionSpring of Joy (1917)Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews
