The Island Pharisees

Name: The Island Pharisees
Author: John Galsworthy
ISBN: 9781836105220

Author: John Galsworthy
Language: English
Length: 164 pages
ISBN: 9781836105220
Published: 13 September 2026
Imprint: Sovereign

social hypocrisy
class prejudice
moral judgment
individual conscience
societal norms
compassion versus conformity
Edwardian England
personal awakening
ethical conflict
cultural encounters

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The Island Pharisees by John Galsworthy follows Shelton, a thoughtful young man who begins questioning rigid social norms after aiding a distressed foreign girl on a train. Confronted by judgment and hypocrisy, he reflects on morality, class, and conformity. His journey becomes a search for authenticity, exposing the conflict between personal conscience and societal expectations.

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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Audiobook · English · Sovereign9781836104124