Frances Waldeaux

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by William Henry Hope, Mary Cassatt and James Tissot. A widow has given her life to a son who is charming, weak and about to marry a woman she detests, and follows the pair to Europe to see it happen. Davis published Life in the Iron-Mills in 1861 and invented American realism in a single story; this late novel of 1897 is short, cold, and unillusio...