Emanuel Haldeman-Julius sold literature by the ton — his five-cent Little Blue Books put Shakespeare and Darwin into the overall pockets of working America. Yet the novel he wrote with his wife Marcet in 1921 is harder and bleaker than anything the Blue Books peddled. On a Kansas farm, a marriage made for the sake of the land binds a woman to a husband who is not cruel, only certain, amid the dust, the wheat, and the mortgages that grind them both down. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.