Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Winslow Homer and Jasper Francis Cropsey. Jessie Loring marries a man she does not love because everyone agrees she should, and gives him her hand and nothing else — for the rest of both their lives. Arthur left school at thirteen, half-blind and apprenticed to a watchmaker, and became one of the most widely read Americans of his century; he wrote to instruct, and the instruction here is aimed squarely at the families who arrange these things. Fifty-five plates, from Redgrave and Munch among others, turn on the domestic interiors, family portraits and quiet waters where such bargains are struck.
