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The Freelands

Author
John Galsworthy
Language
English
Length
280 pages
ISBN
9781836105169
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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The Freelands by John Galsworthy follows the Freeland family in rural Worcestershire as they confront shifting social values and the pressures of modern life. Brothers Felix, an outspoken writer, and Tod, rooted in the countryside, embody opposing responses to change. As generations clash—especially through Tod’s children—the novel explores tradition versus reform, individual conscience, and the strain placed on family bonds by an evolving 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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