Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, George Inness and Jasper Francis Cropsey. Elnora Comstock walks to high school in clothes the town laughs at and pays her own fees by selling moths she catches in the swamp — while her mother, widowed on the night she was born, cannot look at her without seeing the loss. Stratton-Porter was a field naturalist and photographer before she was a novelist, and the Limberlost she wrote about was being drained even as the book sold half a million copies. The moths are real, the mother thaws late, and the swamp does not survive. Fifty-seven plates of marsh light and rural labor, from George Inness to Henry Ossawa Tanner, keep the naturalist's world of the novel in view.