Henry Harland edited The Yellow Book, the decadent quarterly that defined the 1890s — and then wrote, as his bestseller, the sunniest possible antidote to it. An English novelist rents a villa on the Italian lakes to work in peace and discovers that his neighbor is a duchess, his gardener's daughter is not remotely what she seems, and the local cardinal keeps both a fine snuff-box and a shrewd eye for a love plot. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.