John Lavender, a small, gentle gentleman of fifty-eight living on Hampstead Heath, has addled his wits by reading the speeches and writings of public men during the Great War. Like Don Quixote he sets out with his valet to serve the cause, addressing crowds, plunging into public life, starving imaginary Germans and mistaking everything he meets.
Galsworthy’s surprising, biting satire of war fever and the press, a rarity among First World War novels. Download the free EPUB.