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Five Tales

John Galsworthy

Book Overview: 

This book consists of five short stories or novelettes by Galsworthy. They are The First and Last, A Stoic, The Apple Tree, The Juryman, Indian Summer of a Forsyte. This last became part of the trilogy The Forsyte Saga.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .a week for two or three hours, and taught their grandmother to suck eggs. But watching that red-cheeked, white-haired, somnolent figure, his smile was not so contemptuous as might have been expected. For after all, the chairman was a wonderful old boy. A man of go and insight could not but respect him. Eighty! Half paralysed, over head and ears in debt, having gone the pace all his life—or so they said!—till at last that mine in Ecuador had done for him—before the secretary's day, of course, but he had heard of it. The old chap had bought it up on spec'—"de l'audace, toujours de l'audace," as he was so fond of saying—paid for it half in cash and half in promises, and then—the thing had turned out empty, and left him with L20,000 worth of the old shares unredeemed. The old boy had weathered it out without a bankruptcy so far. Indomitable old buffer; and never fussy like the rest of them! Young Farney, though a secretary, was capable of at. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Beautifully written

Have never read any Galsworthy and just finished, Indian Summer of a Forsyte. What great writing, every sentence worth absorbing. I hope the remaining four are as good. Excellent.

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