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The Man Between

An International Romance

by Amelia E. Barr 1831–1919

The book, and the century it came out of.

New York and London: an American girl, an English title, a marriage arranged across the Atlantic, and the man who stands between. Barr lost her husband and three sons to yellow fever in Texas in a single epidemic, went to New York a widow with three daughters and no money, and wrote some eighty novels to keep them. She knew what a woman without means was worth in either country. Illustrated with 36 full-page plates — paintings by Logsdail, Grandjean and Signac among them.

THE thing that I know least about is my beginning.
The first sentence of The Man Between
A note on this edition

The Man Between, by Amelia E. Barr, complete and unabridged. Spelling and punctuation follow present-day American usage; the sentences, the paragraphs and the voice are the author’s, word for word.

It was written in another era and may carry attitudes a reader today will find dated. They are kept for the sake of the work and do not reflect the views of this house.

The edition
Format
Ebook
Extent
about 184 pages
Reading time
about 4 hours
Illustrations
Full-page plates, credited
Text
Complete, unabridged
Language
en
This edition
2026
ISBN
9785501461376
The plates

36 paintings are bound into this edition

Six of them are shown here, taken from the volume itself. Each is reproduced full page and named with its painter and year.

St Martin-in-the-Fields, William Logsdail
St Martin-in-the-Fields William Logsdail 1888
Fra Paris, Henrik Backer
Fra Paris Henrik Backer 1889
Interior of the Sculpture Museum, Jens Wang
Interior of the Sculpture Museum Jens Wang 1884
Under the Lamp, Édouard Vuillard
Under the Lamp Édouard Vuillard 1892
Public Exhibition of a Picture, Joan Ferrer Miró
Public Exhibition of a Picture Joan Ferrer Miró 1888
Les bords de la Seine près d’Argenteuil, Gustave Caillebotte
Les bords de la Seine près d’Argenteuil Gustave Caillebotte 1888
The setting

A page from this edition

Not a mock-up: this page is taken from the finished volume. The ornament above the chapter belongs to its shelf and to no other, the opening letter is set as a drop capital, and the plate below carries the name of the painter and the year.

A page of The Man Between as set for this edition
The opening of a chapter
A page of The Man Between as set for this edition
A page where a plate falls

Both photographed from the finished volume.

Colophon

The Man Between, issued in this edition by Aeneas Press in 2026 on the Love & Society shelf. Newly set, with the ornament of its series above each chapter and a drop capital on the opening page. Illustrated with full-page plates, each named with its painter.

Published as an ebook and not issued in print by this house; it carries one ISBN, 9785501461376, and is supplied worldwide. This edition — its setting, its ornament, its cover art, and the selection and attribution of its plates — © 2026 Aeneas Press.

Before you buy

Questions readers ask

Is this the whole of The Man Between?
Yes — complete and unabridged. Nothing is cut, condensed or paraphrased. This is the book, not a summary of it.
What exactly did you change?
The spelling and the punctuation follow present-day American usage. Amelia E. Barr's sentences are untouched — same words, same order, same rhythm.
Are the pictures really in the book?
Yes. The edition carries full-page plates bound into the text, each one named with its painter and the year it was made. Six of them are shown on this page.
How long is it?
About 184 pages, which is roughly about 4 hours of reading.
What do I actually get?
An illustrated ebook with its own ISBN, sold worldwide. One file, yours to keep, readable on any device.
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