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The Country House

Author
John Galsworthy
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
7 hours 36 minutes
ISBN
9781836104056
Published
30 April 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • English countryside
  • landed gentry
  • social hierarchy
  • country estate life
  • romantic tension
  • class conflict
  • social duty
  • interpersonal drama
  • Edwardian society
  • moral values

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The Country House by John Galsworthy centers on Horace Pendyce, a landowner devoted to tradition and social duty, hosting guests at his estate. Amid polite gatherings, tensions rise through class expectations, conflicting ideals, and romantic intrigue, especially surrounding Mrs. Bellew. As loyalties and desires clash, the novel reveals the fragility of social order and personal restraint.

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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