Five Tales
1918
Five Tales dissects the English upper middle class with surgical precision. Galsworthy, Nobel laureate and master of social realism, traces the fractures that run beneath polished surfaces: the loyalty that becomes complicity, the duty that curdles into self-destruction, the love that cannot speak its name. The collection opens with 'The First and Last,' a devastating study of fraternal bonds pushed to breaking point when barrister Keith Darrant must decide whether to shield a brother who has killed a man in passion. Each tale follows this pattern: a quiet crisis of conscience, a choice that reveals the hollowness or the terrible weight of convention. There are no heroes, only people trapped in the machinery of reputation and expectation. The prose carries the restraint of its era, but beneath that decorum burns something urgent and unsentimental. For readers who treasure the psychological depth of Henry James or the moral architecture of George Eliot.
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