The Home Mission

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Eastman Johnson and Winslow Homer. Two dozen short stories from the most prolific American moralist of his day: a step-mother winning over a hostile household, a young mother learning patience, a brother tempted at his desk, a girl's experiment in kindness. The mission of the title is domestic — charity that begins with a temper he...