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The Freelands

John Galsworthy

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .-producer, and let the rest take care of itself!' As if we weren't all long past that feeble individualism; as if in these days of world markets the land didn't stand or fall in this country as a breeding-ground of health and stamina and nothing else. Well, well!"

"Aren't they really in earnest, then?" asked Nedda timidly.

"Miss Freeland, this land question is a perfect tragedy. Bar one or two, they all want to make the omelette without breaking eggs; well, by the time they begin to think of breaking them, mark me—there'll be no eggs to break. We shall be all park and suburb. The real men on the land, what few are left, are dumb and helpless; and these fellows here for one reason or another don't mean business—they'll talk and tinker and top-dress—that's all. Does your father take any interest in this? He could write something very nice."

"He takes interest in everything," said Nedda. "Please go on, Mr.—Mr.—". . . Read More

Community Reviews

4.00
- Maddy - Jan 12, 2020

I liked this one - easy to read, interesting setting. A good companion to The End of the House of Alard, which is set after WWI and is about how expensive it is to keep large country estates going. This was published in 1915 but doesn't mention the war and is about how shitty the lives of farm labou

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- Dr.J.G. - Feb 05, 2016

Galsworthy, amongst other worthy intellectuals of the day -such as George Bernard Shaw - realised all too well the economic and social questions of the day, and caste system of the European continent was one, land and its ownership and usage towards luxuries of the owners detrimental to the general

4.00
- Dr.J.G. - Feb 05, 2016

Galsworthy, amongst other worthy intellectuals of the day -such as George Bernard Shaw - realised all too well the economic and social questions of the day, and caste system of the European continent was one, land and its ownership and usage towards luxuries of the owners detrimental to the general

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