Complete and unabridged, with 46 full-page plates by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt and Winslow Homer. A young couple come into money and go to New York to spend it, narrated by a husband who understands nothing and reports everything. Lardner wrote American speech better than anyone of his generation and never once winks at the reader. This edition adds 46 plates of paintings by George Bellows, Albert Bierstadt and others, plus five illustrations restored and coloured.