The Dark Flower

Name: The Dark Flower
Author: John Galsworthy
ISBN: 9781836104131

Author: John Galsworthy
Read by: Eloise Fairfax
Language: English
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
ISBN: 9781836104131
Published: 5 May 2026
Imprint: Sovereign

romantic obsession
forbidden love
Oxford setting
emotional longing
marital tension
youthful passion
moral conflict
psychological drama
memory and desire
coming of age

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Description

The Dark Flower by John Galsworthy follows Mark Lennan, a sensitive Oxford student drawn into a complex attraction with the married Anna Stormer. Their relationship reveals tensions between youthful passion and restraint. As his life unfolds through successive loves, Mark confronts desire, memory, and the moral limits imposed by society.

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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