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The Patrician

Author
John Galsworthy
Language
English
Length
280 pages
ISBN
9781836105190
Published
2 May 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • aristocratic family
  • British nobility
  • social hierarchy
  • political duty
  • tradition versus change
  • family legacy
  • class privilege
  • generational conflict
  • Edwardian society
  • personal desire

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The Patrician by John Galsworthy portrays the aristocratic Caradoc family at Monkland Court, where tradition and change collide. Centered on Lord Valleys and his children, the story explores duty, privilege, and shifting social values. As personal desires challenge inherited expectations, Galsworthy reveals the tensions between legacy and individuality within a changing world.

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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