Five Tales

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Spencer Gore, Robert Bevan and John Lavery. Five long stories, including The Apple Tree — a Devon farm girl, an Oxford man walking in spring, and a decision he takes lightly. Galsworthy trained as a barrister, never practised, and met Joseph Conrad aboard a ship where Conrad was first mate; the friendship lasted Conrad's life. These are the best...