Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Spencer Gore, Robert Bevan and John Lavery. An overworked English public man, Sir Richmond Hardy, and his psychiatrist take a motor tour of the West Country — Stonehenge, Avebury, Salisbury, Glastonbury — and talk, for a week, about the man's marriage, his mistress and what is wrong with him. Wells trained under Darwin's champion Huxley and brought a biologist's eye to fiction; this 1922 novel is barely disguised autobiography, and the stones are the only thing not talking. Fifty-seven plates of Munch, Lavery and their contemporaries, from gambling tables to Somerset landscape, run alongside the tour like the country seen from the car.
