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The Book of the Homeless (Le livre des sans-foyer) by Edith Wharton et al.

"The Book of the Homeless (Le livre des sans-foyer)" by Edith Wharton et al. is a collection published in 1916. This extraordinary anthology brings together essays, poetry, art, and musical scores from some of the era's most celebrated writers and artists. Created during World War I, the collection served a humanitarian purpose: all proceeds funded civilians displaced by the war. Contributors include Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, and Igor Stravinsky, among many others. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Editor Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Contributor Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924
Contributor Barrès, Maurice, 1862-1923
Contributor Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956
Contributor Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
Contributor Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943
Contributor Blanche, Jacques-Émile, 1861-1942
Contributor Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936
Contributor Bonnat, Léon Joseph Florentin, 1833-1922
Contributor Bourget, Paul, 1852-1935
Contributor Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915
Contributor Claudel, Paul, 1868-1955
Contributor Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
Contributor Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Contributor Dagnan-Bouveret, Pascal-Adolphe-Jean, 1852-1929
Contributor Duse, Eleonora, 1858-1924
Contributor Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933
Contributor Gay, Walter, 1856-1937
Contributor Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904
Contributor Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944
Contributor Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928
Contributor Grant, Robert, 1852-1940
Contributor Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
Contributor Hervieu, Paul, 1857-1915
Contributor Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
Contributor Humbert‏ , Georges-Louis‏, 1862-1921
Contributor Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931
Contributor James, Henry, 1843-1916
Contributor Jammes, Francis, 1868-1938
Contributor Joffre, Joseph Jacques Césaire, 1852-1931
Contributor Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949
Contributor Martin, Edward Sandford, 1856-1939
Contributor Ménard, E. René (Emile René), 1862-1930
Contributor Meynell, Alice, 1847-1922
Contributor Monet, Claude, 1840-1926
Contributor More, Paul Elmer, 1864-1937
Contributor Noailles, Anna de, 1876-1933
Contributor Peabody, Josephine Preston, 1874-1922
Contributor Perry, Lilla Cabot
Contributor Régnier, Henri de, 1864-1936
Contributor Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919
Contributor Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950
Contributor Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917
Contributor Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Contributor Rostand, Edmond, 1868-1918
Contributor Rysselberghe, Théo van, 1862-1926
Contributor Santayana, George, 1863-1952
Contributor Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
Contributor Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
Contributor Suarès, André, 1868-1948
Contributor Thomas, Edith Matilda, 1854-1925
Contributor Trench, Herbert, 1865-1923
Contributor Verhaeren, Emile, 1855-1916
Contributor Ward, Humphry, Mrs., 1851-1920
Contributor Wendell, Barrett, 1855-1921
Contributor Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Contributor Woods, Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa), 1856-1945
Contributor Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
LoC No. 16002385
Title The Book of the Homeless (Le livre des sans-foyer)
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Homeless
Credits Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images available at The Internet Archive)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 65.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
Language French
LoC Class D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)
Subject World War, 1914-1918
Category Text
eBook-No. 57584
ISBN (HTML) 979-8-238-57584-1
Release Date
Last Update Jan 24, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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