Ragged Lady

Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Giuseppe De Nittis and Giovanni Fattori. A Vermont girl of no family is taken up by a rich woman as a companion and carried to Italy — where the arrangement, and everyone's exact idea of what she is owed, comes apart. Howells edited The Atlantic and was the most powerful literary broker in America; this 1899 novel is his quietest ...