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A rising politician of a great Whig family falls in love with a divorced woman, and his career, his party and his relations all quietly explain to him what is possible. Galsworthy was a barrister who never practised and was told to write by Joseph Conrad, then a ship's first mate; this 1911 novel is his coldest look at his own class - the aristocrats are decent, intelligent, and immovable.
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A rising politician of a great Whig family falls in love with a divorced woman, and his career, his party and his relations all quietly explain to him what is possible. Galsworthy was a barrister who never practised and was told to write by Joseph Conrad, then a ship's first mate; this 1911 novel is his coldest look at his own class - the aristocrats are decent, intelligent, and immovable.
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