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The Freelands

Author
John Galsworthy
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
9 hours 46 minutes
ISBN
9781836104063
Published
30 April 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • rural England
  • family conflict
  • social change
  • industrialization
  • generational tension
  • tradition versus modernity
  • countryside life
  • personal freedom
  • social criticism
  • artistic ideals

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Brothers Felix and Tod Freeland face rural Worcestershire's shifting values as Tod's reform-minded children clash with tradition and conscience. Galsworthy's family novel of change, land, and the strain reform places on kinship. Spoken as when the countryside still argues how far a family should bend.

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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