Overview
Written with both compassion and ironic
detachment, Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only the
family's fortunes but also the wider developments within society,
particularly the changing position of women in an intensely competitive
male world. Above all, Galsworthy is concerned with the conflict at the
heart of English culture between the soulless materialism of wealth and
property and the humane instincts of love, beauty, and art.
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