Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by George Bellows, Childe Hassam and Carl Spitzweg. The Marches, married twenty-five years, take the European tour they could not afford as newlyweds — the ship, the Rhine, Carlsbad, a young couple in trouble whom they cannot help minding about. Howells edited The Atlantic and wrote for Harper's, and was the most powerful literary broker in America; here he does middle age exactly, and the kindness of the book is not softness. Fifty-eight plates of American sea and shore, from Winslow Homer's headlands to Childe Hassam's Isles of Shoals light, keep the salt air of the Marches' crossing in view.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by George Bellows, Childe Hassam and Carl Spitzweg. The Marches, married twenty-five years, take the European tour they could not afford as newlyweds — the ship, the Rhine, Carlsbad, a young couple in trouble whom they cannot help minding about. H...