Broken to Harness

Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Walter Sickert, William Quiller Orchardson and Vilhelm Hammershøi. Three young men in London chambers marry, work and fail at various rates, and the harness of the title tightens on each differently. Edmund Yates was a Post Office clerk who became a famous editor, and quarrelled with Thackeray in the row that split the Garrick Club. The novel is...