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Earth's Enigmas

Charles G. D. Roberts

First published 1896
Publisher Lamson, Wolffe & Co.
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages 291

  • 15 stories (1896) namely, 12 shared and A Tragedy of the Tides, An Experience of Jabez Batterpole, The Eye of Gluskâp

    15 stories (1903) namely, 12 shared and On the Tantramar Dyke, The Hill of Chastisement, Stony—Lonesome

    In the 1903 "Prefatory Note", Roberts says the new "edition is enlarged by the inclusion of three new stories" (and is illustrated). Newspaper coverage describes it as enlarged, even "nearly double the size" (NY Times 1903-03-07 pBR11). But three stories are dropped, including the last and longest.
  • First published in 1896, copyright 1895 by the publisher. 1st ed. shows immediately after the copyright page (quote):   Author's Note.   Most of the stories in this collection have already appeared in the pages of English, American, or Canadian periodicals. For kind courtesies in regard to the reprinting of these stories my thanks are due to the Editors of Harper's Magazine, Longman's Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, The Cosmopolitan, Lippincott's Magazine, The Independent, The Toronto Globe, Harper's Bazaar, and The Youth's Companion.   C. G. D. R.   Fredericton, N. B.   January, 1896.

The full text and images of this edition are available at Google Books. Primary Verification done from those scanned images. Contento1 gives the metadata for this edition, but the contents of the 1903 edition.

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Earth's Enigmas Cover 1903 L. C. Page Hardcover Collection 285+4
Earth's Enigmas: A Volume of Stories 2006 Project Gutenberg eBook Collection 20231