Complete and unabridged, with 3 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, Marianne North and Frederick Sargent. A country house party of cranks, scholars and eligible daughters argues its way through a winter, with Peacock's usual method: give everyone a hobby-horse and let them talk. His last novel, written at seventy-five, and the gentlest of them. This edition is bound with three plates of painting by Marianne North, Frederick Sargent and William Powell Frith, and includes thirty-seven illustrations restored and coloured.