Very good condition hardback book by Clara E. Laughlin, a novella. Copyright 1911 by Revell. Missing dust jacket. Clara E. Laughlin's "The Gleaners" is a story which takes not only its name but its plot from Millet's well-known painting which a cousin sends to Julietta Grier because the cousin's husband declared it made his back ache. Julietta has always been a very difficult young person—narrow, peevish, fussy, exacting; but the picture and her study of its meaning set her at once to work along the higher roads of life. She begins by raising her washerwoman's pay, goes on to hire a maid servant, and inspires a youthful author, who has come out into the suburbs for such inspiration, until he writes a play —"The Servant in the House" type —whereby he captures New York and Julietta. The story is told with a lot of humor.