The Allen House

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by John Hoppner, George Morland and Winslow Homer. A town, a house, and twenty years: who married, who drank, who prospered, who was found out — the ledger of a New England community read across a generation. Arthur left school at thirteen, half-blind and apprenticed to a watchmaker, and became one of the most widely read Americans of his century, ...