The Sea-Witch

Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by J. M. W. Turner, Ivan Aivazovsky and Edvard Munch. A slaver on the West African coast, a quadroon woman sold with the cargo, and a Yankee captain who has to decide what he is. Ballou founded Ballou's Pictorial and, with a partner, the first American story paper, turning out cheap romances by the yard. Read it as evidence: this is how the America...