Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, Ivan Shishkin and Lovis Corinth. A Devon squire's household, a disputed inheritance, a Catholic conspiracy in the family, and the Crimean war at the end of it. Henry Kingsley wrote it after five failed years digging for gold in Australia, and it is the best of him - Ravenshoe was admired by everyone from Trollope to Kipling. This edition carries a gallery of 58 plates after painters including Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, William Powell Frith, Ilya Repin and Ivan Shishkin, together with one restored and coloured illustration.

Henry Kingsley (1830-1876) was an English novelist born in Northamptonshire, younger brother of Charles Kingsley. He spent five years in the Australian goldfields without finding much, returned to write, edited a Scottish newspaper and reported the Franco-Prussian war from the field. His works include The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn, Ravenshoe, and The Hillyars and the Burtons.