Edgar Saltus

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1913
  • Latest Book:
    June 2022
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Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • The Monsters

    When the clergyman had gone, the bride turned. Before her was an open window before which was the open sea. In the air was a tropical languor, a savour of brine, the scent of lilies, the sound of mandolins that are far away. Below, in the garden, wer...

  • Mr. Incoul's Misadventure - A Novel

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • Imperial Purple

    "Edgar Saltus (1855 -1921) was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. Saltus wrote two books of philosophy, The Philosophy of Disenchantment and The Anatomy of Negation. Imperial Purple was published in 1892. Imperial Purple is ...

  • Daughters of the Rich

    Edgar Saltus (1855-1921) was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. In addition to his novels and poetry, Saltus also wrote two books of philosophy, The Philosophy of Disenchantment and The Anatomy of Negation....

  • A Transient Guest and Other Episodes

  • Mr. Incoul's Misadventure

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

  • Mary Magdalen

    A fascinating fictionalisation of the life of the biblical figure Mary Magdalene, written by American writer Edgar Saltus....

  • Eden

  • The Lords of the Ghostland



  • The Pace That Kills

    Popular novel, first published in 1889. According to Wikipedia: "Edgar Evertson Saltus (October 8, 1855 â€" July 31, 1921) was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. His works paralleled those by European decadent authors such ...

  • The Truth about Tristrem Varick

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

  • Historia Amoris

  • The Philosophy of Disenchantment

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

  • A Transient Guest, and Other Episodes

    Since the Koenig Wilhelm, of the Dutch East India Service, left Batavia, the sky had been torpidly blue, that suffocating indigo which seems so neighborly that the traveller fancies were he a trifle taller he could touch it with the ferule of his sti...

  • The Monster

    The Monster by Edgar Saltus. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world lit...

  • A Transaction in Hearts

    In this romance, the admirers of Mr. Saltus will find some of his strongest and most characteristic work. "A Transaction in Hearts" will press "Tristrem Varick" very closely in the race for enduring popularity. In many ways the former is the greater ...

  • The Truth about Tristrem Varick & Mr. Incoul's Misadventure: Two Novels

    Saltus’s first two novels bear the imprint of the kind of diffident, decadent pessimism The Philosophy of Disenchantment elaborates. Indeed, the sensitivity requisite for the recognition that life has no value informs Mr. Incoul’s Misadventure, t...

  • Vanity Square

    "This 'story of Fifth avenue life' written in the author's clever vein is the unpleasant account of a man satiated with all the Joys that wealth can buy, who has lost active interest in all things including his charming wife and child. A woman of rar...

  • The Princess of the Sun and Other Decadent Stories

    Edgar Saltus was one of the great decadent writers of the United States-possibly the greatest. Set amidst glamourous Gilded Age New York, his fiction tells of the secret cruelties and obsessions eating away at the souls of socialites, businessmen and...



  • The Perfume Of Eros

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    ROYAL," said the man's mother that evening, "are you still thinking of Fanny Price?" It was in Gramercy Park. As you may or may not know, Gramercy Park is the least noisy spot in the metropolitan Bedlam. Without being unreasonably aristocratic it is ...

  • The Paliser Case

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    Mystery, tragedy, comedy, glimpses of a Harlem Bohemia, and the blasé social atmosphere of multi-millionaires are overlaid with the freshness and vitality of the Spanish singer Cassy Cara, a wholly delightful girl. The development of the plot is piq...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Edgar Saltus has published 21 books.

Edgar Saltus does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Princess of the Sun and Other Decadent Stories, was published in June 2022.

The first book by Edgar Saltus, The Monsters, was published in November 1913.

No. Edgar Saltus does not write books in series.
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