Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by John Everett Millais, James Tissot and James McNeill Whistler. Six of the shorter fictions: a woman shut in a telegraph office reading other people's lives through the wires, a critic hunting the secret pattern in a novelist's work, the lesson of the master, the death of the lion, the altar of the dead and the Patagonia. James is at his most concentrated in this length, and the ambiguity is deliberate every time. Fifty-eight plates, among them Tissot and Sargent, gather the tea party, the dinner party and the seaside promenade into a single portrait of the watching crowd.