Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Thomas Doughty, Jasper Francis Cropsey and George Inness. James on Hawthorne - respectful, exasperated, and famous for the passage listing everything American life did not provide a novelist. American critics were furious for a generation and the essay is still argued about. This edition is bound with a gallery of 60 plates of paintings by Eastman Johnson, George Inness, Albert Bierstadt and others, dating from 1713 to 1898.