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Five Tales

Author
John Galsworthy
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
9 hours 14 minutes
ISBN
9781836104070
Published
30 April 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • moral dilemmas
  • family loyalty
  • crime and guilt
  • legal conflict
  • ethical choices
  • psychological tension
  • social expectations
  • justice versus compassion
  • interpersonal drama
  • consequences of actions

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Description

Five Tales opens with The First and Last: barrister Keith Darrant faces a moral crisis when his brother confesses to murder, and loyalty strains against justice. The volume also turns through A Stoic, The Apple Tree, The Juryman, and Indian Summer of a Forsyte. Guilt, family ties, and hard choices press against a rigid society, each story its own reckoning in short compass.

Author

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) helped shape the English novel's passage from Victorian certainties to twentieth-century doubt. A barrister who turned to literature in his thirties, he wrote with an insider's knowledge of the leisured classes and a reformer's impatience with their complacency. The Forsyte Saga made him famous — a multi-generational study of money, marriage, and the hunger to own.

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