Complete and unabridged, with 51 full-page plates by James McNeill Whistler, George Inness and Albert Bierstadt. A New York household takes in the people nobody else will - a fallen woman, a poor relation, an awkward girl - and the neighbors have views. Stowe wrote it late, as a serial, and used it to argue that charity practiced at arm's length is not charity. This edition is bound with a gallery of 51 plates after Bierstadt, Cole, Inness and Church, and includes 7 restored and coloured illustrations.