Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, George Inness and Walter Sickert. A poor young tutor is hired by a shabby-genteel family drifting round the hotels of Europe, and finds his pupil is the cleverest person in the household and the only one ashamed of it. James wrote it in 1891 and thought it among his best; the boy's education consists of learning exactly what his parents are, and the tutor's consists of learning what he himself will not do. Fifty-eight plates of dinners, tea tables, sewing hands and portraits by painters including Henry Sargent and Giovanni Boldini catch the shabby-genteel interiors and watchful faces of the world the tutor enters.
