The Twentieth Century
Early twentieth-century classics.
The century opened with the novel already confident and quickly found reasons to doubt it. Sentences shortened, interiors opened up, and writers began to trust the reader with far less explanation. These are the books from the turn of that corner. Each Aeneas Press edition presents the complete work with spelling and punctuation in present-day American usage, illustrated with credited full-page plates.
The editions
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