Delphi Complete Works of Mary Webb

by Mary Webb, Delphi Classics (editor)

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



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

2247 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 26, 2023

About the author

Mary Webb (1881-1927) was an English romantic novelist of the early 20th century, whose novels were set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people which she knew and loved well. Although she was acclaimed by John Buchan and by Rebecca West, who hailed her as a genius, and won the Prix Femina of La Vie Heureuse for Precious Bane (1924), she won little respect from the general public. It was only after her death that the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, earned her posthumous success through his approbation, referring to her as a neglected genius at a Literary Fund dinner in 1928.

Her writing is notable for its descriptions of nature, and of the human heart. She had a deep sympathy for all her characters and was able to see good and truth in all of them. Among her most famous works are: The Golden Arrow (1916), Gone to Earth (1917), and Seven for a Secret (1922).