The Untilled Field

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Walter Osborne, Thomas Gainsborough and Spencer Gore. Ireland in a dozen stories: a priest who drives a girl from the parish, an emigrant's letter, a stonecutter, a village where nothing will grow because everyone who could has gone. Moore was an Irish landlord's son who went to Paris to paint, failed, and came back with Zola's method; several o...