Put Yourself in His Place

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Henry Wallis and Adolph von Menzel. A young engineer in a Yorkshire cutlery town introduces machinery, and the trade unions warn him, then blow up his workshop — while a doctor's daughter, a flooded reservoir and an old crime run alongside. Reade campaigned in fiction against private asylums, brutal prisons and union violence, and ...