Fennel and Rue

Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by William Orpen, John Lavery and William Merritt Chase. A successful novelist is drawn into a correspondence with a reader who writes as a dying invalid to learn how his serial will end, discovers that the letters were a girl's hoax, and then meets her at a country-house party. Howells wrote it late, in 1908, about the literary trade he had presid...