The title piece is set at a villa in the Tyrol, where Christian, the earnest stepdaughter of a wealthy family, falls in love with Harz, a poor and unconventional painter whom her relations distrust. The shorter works that follow include ‘A Man of Devon’, ‘A Knight’ and ‘Salvation of a Forsyte’, an early glimpse of the Forsyte family.
Early Galsworthy, showing the themes of property and freedom he would develop in the Forsyte novels. Download the free EPUB.