The Freelands

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by William Orpen, Spencer Gore and John Lavery. Four Freeland brothers — a squire, a bureaucrat, a banker and a Tolstoyan — quarrel over England while farm laborers are evicted from their cottages and a girl of their own family takes the laborers' side. Galsworthy wrote it in 1915, at the height of his fame and his doubts; the land question is real...