Basil March gives up his insurance job and brings his wife Isabel from Boston to New York to edit a new illustrated magazine, Every Other Week. Their staff and backers include a self-made natural-gas millionaire, his idealistic son, a German socialist veteran and an artistic adventurer, and a streetcar strike draws them all into the city’s conflicts.
Often counted Howells’s finest novel, a panoramic portrait of 1880s New York and the money and labour quarrels that shaped it. Download the free EPUB.