Celibates

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne and Édouard Vuillard. Three long stories about people who do not marry: Mildred Lawson, a rich girl who tries art and philanthropy and slips out of every engagement; John Norton, a young Catholic who wants the cloister more than any woman; and Agnes Lahens, a convent girl brought home to a worldly household who goes bac...