Delphi Complete Works of Thorne Smith

by Thorne Smith, Delphi Classics (Editor)

A master of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction, Thorne Smith is best known today as the creator of the Topper novels. His works of comic fantasy involve sexual encounters, much drinking, ghosts and hilarious misadventures. This comprehensive eBook presents Smith’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Smith’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All the novels and short stories, with individual contents tables
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Includes the rare children’s book ‘Lazy Bear Lane’
* Smith’s rare poetry
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres

Please the posthumous novel ‘The Passionate Witch’ was completed by Norman H. Matson and so cannot appear due to copyright restrictions.



The Novels
Topper (1926)
Dream’s End (1927)
The Stray Lamb (1929)
Did She Fall? (1930)
The Night Life of the Gods (1931)
Turnabout (1931)
Topper Takes a Trip (1932)
The Bishop’s Jaegers (1932)
Rain in the Doorway (1933)
Skin and Bones (1933)
The Glorious Pool (1934)

The Shorter Fiction
Biltmore Oswald (1918)
Out O’ Luck (1919)
Birthday Present (1934)
Yonder’s Henry! (1934)

The Children’s Book
Lazy Bear Lane (1931)

The Poetry
Haunts and Bypaths (1919)

3697 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 2, 2023

About the author

James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, much drinking and supernatural transformations. With racy illustrations, these sold millions of copies in the 1930s and were equally popular in paperbacks of the 1950s.

Smith was born in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of a Navy commodore and attended Dartmouth College. Following hungry years in Greenwich Village, working part-time as an advertising agent, Smith achieved meteoric success with the publication of Topper in 1926. He was an early resident of Free Acres, a social experimental community developed by Bolton Hall according to the economic principles of Henry George in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He died of a heart attack in 1934 while vacationing in Florida.