The Patrician

Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Spencer Gore, William Orpen and Robert Dodd. A rising politician of a great Whig family falls in love with a woman living apart from her husband, and his career, his party and his relations all quietly explain to him what is possible. Galsworthy was a barrister who never practiced and had befriended Joseph Conrad, then first mate of the ship car...