# The Book of the Homeless (Le livre des sans-foyer)

By Edith Wharton.

"The Book of the Homeless (Le livre des sans-foyer)" by Edith Wharton et al. is a collection published in 1916. This extraordinary anthology brings together essays, poetry, art, and musical scores from some of the era's most celebrated writers and artists. Created during World War I, the collection served a humanitarian purpose: all proceeds funded civilians displaced by the war. Contributors include Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, and Igor Stravinsky, among many others. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English, French
- Editor: Edith Wharton
- Contributor: Léon Bakst
- Contributor: Maurice Barrès
- Contributor: Max Beerbohm, Sir
- Contributor: Sarah Bernhardt
- Contributor: Laurence Binyon
- Contributor: Jacques-Émile Blanche
- Contributor: Edwin Howland Blashfield
- Contributor: Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat
- Contributor: Paul Bourget
- Contributor: Rupert Brooke
- Contributor: Paul Claudel
- Contributor: Jean Cocteau
- Contributor: Joseph Conrad
- Contributor: Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret
- Contributor: Eleonora Duse
- Contributor: John Galsworthy
- Contributor: Walter Gay
- Contributor: Jean Léon Gérôme
- Contributor: Charles Dana Gibson
- Contributor: Edmund Gosse
- Contributor: Robert Grant
- Contributor: Thomas Hardy
- Contributor: Paul Hervieu
- Contributor: William Dean Howells
- Contributor: Georges-Louis‏ Humbert‏
- Contributor: Vincent d' Indy
- Contributor: Henry James
- Contributor: Francis Jammes
- Contributor: Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre
- Contributor: Maurice Maeterlinck
- Contributor: Edward Sandford Martin
- Contributor: E. René Ménard
- Contributor: Alice Meynell
- Contributor: Claude Monet
- Contributor: Paul Elmer More
- Contributor: Anna de Noailles
- Contributor: Josephine Preston Peabody
- Contributor: Lilla Cabot Perry
- Contributor: Henri de Régnier
- Contributor: Auguste Renoir
- Contributor: Agnes Repplier
- Contributor: Auguste Rodin
- Contributor: Theodore Roosevelt
- Contributor: Edmond Rostand
- Contributor: Théo van Rysselberghe
- Contributor: George Santayana
- Contributor: John Singer Sargent
- Contributor: Igor Stravinsky
- Contributor: André Suarès
- Contributor: Edith Matilda Thomas
- Contributor: Herbert Trench
- Contributor: Emile Verhaeren
- Contributor: Humphry Ward, Mrs.
- Contributor: Barrett Wendell
- Contributor: Edith Wharton
- Contributor: Margaret L. Woods
- Contributor: W. B. Yeats
- Subjects: World War, 1914-1918

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