Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. A young man gives up politics for painting and an actress gives up everything for the stage, and both are told they are wasting their lives. James's novel about what art costs the people who choose it. This edition includes fifty-nine plates of painting from 1795 to 1915, among them works by Henry Sargent, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.