Richard Shelton is engaged to the charming, conventional Antonia and set for a comfortable life when a chance meeting with a penniless foreign vagabond starts him questioning everything around him. Clubs, drawing rooms, country houses, a parson’s study and Oxford all look different once he sees their smug hypocrisy.
Galsworthy’s first important novel, foreshadowing the social criticism of The Forsyte Saga. Download the free EPUB.