Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by George Bellows, William James Glackens and John Sloan. Stories about people the magazines did not print: a manicurist, a fat woman, an out-of-work actor, a girl who eats at the cheap end of the counter. Ferber was a reporter at seventeen and later won the Pulitzer for So Big; the title says it — this is the toast landing the other way, and she wrote it before anyone would have called it social realism. Fifty-eight plates of city life by painters like John Sloan and George Bellows, from park drives to rooftops, give these stories of ordinary people their period face.