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The Book of the Homeless

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Originally published
  
1916

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Edith Wharton

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The Book of the Homeless was a 1916 collection of essays, art, poetry, and musical scores whose profits were used to fund civilians displaced by World War I. It was edited by Edith Wharton.

Contents

Introductory matters

  • A letter from Joseph Joffre
  • An introduction from Theodore Roosevelt
  • A preface by Edith Wharton

    • Other works

  • "The Brothers" by Maurice Barrès
  • "A Promise" by Sarah Bernhardt
  • "The Orphans of Flanders" by Laurence Binyon
  • "One Year Later" by Paul Bourget
  • "The Dance" by Rupert Brooke
  • "The Precious Blood" by Paul Claudel
  • "by How the Young Men died in Hellas" Jean Cocteau
  • "Poland Revisited" by Joseph Conrad
  • "La légende de Saint Christophe" by Vincent d'Indy
  • "The Right to Liberty" by Eleonora Duse
  • "Harvest" by John Galsworthy
  • "The Arrogance and Servility of Germany" by Edmund Gosse
  • "A Message" by Robert Grant
  • "Cry of the Homeless" by Thomas Hardy
  • "Science and Conscience" by Paul Hervieu
  • "The Little Children" by William Dean Howells
  • "An Heroic Stand" by Georges Louis Humbert
  • "The Long Wards" by Henry James
  • "An Epitaph" by Francis Jammes
  • "Our Inheritance" by Maurice Maeterlinck
  • "We Who Sit Afar Off" by Edward Sandford Martin
  • "In Sleep" by Alice Meynell
  • "A Moment of Tragic Purgation" by Paul Elmer More
  • "Our Dead" by Anna de Noailles
  • "Two Songs of a Year: 1914-1915" by Josephine Preston Peabody
  • "Rain in Belgium" by Lilla Cabot Perry
  • "The Russian Bogyman" by Agnes Repplier
  • "The Exile" by Henri de Régnier
  • "Horror and Beauty" by Edmond Rostand
  • "The Undergraduate Killed in Battle" by George Santayana
  • "Souvenir d'une marche boche" by Igor Stravinsky
  • "Song of the Welsh Women" by André Suarès
  • "The Children and the Flag" by Edith M. Thomas
  • "The Troubler of Telaro" by Herbert Trench
  • "The New Spring" by Émile Verhaeren
  • "Wordsworth's Valley in War-time" by Mary Augusta Ward
  • "1915" by Barrett Wendell
  • "The Tryst" by Edith Wharton
  • "Finisterre" by Margaret L. Woods
  • "A Reason for Keeping Silent" by W. B. Yeats

    • References

    The Book of the Homeless Wikipedia
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