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The Patrician

John Galsworthy

The story delves into the lives of the Caradoc family, centering around Lord Valleys and his children as they navigate issues of status, tradition, and modernity within the aristocratic class.

"The Patrician" by John Galsworthy is a novel. The story delves into the lives of the Caradoc family, centering around Lord Valleys and his children as they navigate issues of status, tradition, and modernity within the aristocratic class.

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Light, entering the vast room—a room so high that its carved ceiling refused itself to exact scrutiny—travelled, with the wistful, cold curiosity of the dawn, over a fantastic storehouse of Time. Light, unaccompanied by the prejudice of human eyes, made strange revelation of incongruities, as though illuminating the dispassionate march of history.

For in this dining hall—one of the finest in England—the Caradoc family had for centuries assembled the trophies and records of their existence. Round about this dining hall they had built and pulled down and restored, until the rest of Monkland Court presented some aspect of homogeneity. Here alone they had left virgin the work of the old quasi-monastic builders, and within it unconsciously deposited their souls. For there were here, meeting the eyes of light, all those rather touching evidences of man's desire to persist for ever, those shells of his former bodies, the fetishes and queer proofs of his faiths, together with the remorseless demonstration of their treatment at the hands of Time.

Contents

  1. 01Part I
  2. 02Chapter I
  3. 03Chapter II
  4. 04Chapter III
  5. 05Chapter IV
  6. 06Chapter V
  7. 07Chapter VI
  8. 08Chapter VII
  9. 09Chapter VIII
  10. 10Chapter IX
  11. 11Chapter X
  12. 12Chapter XI
  13. 13Chapter XII
  14. 14Chapter XIII
  15. 15Chapter XIV
  16. 16Chapter XV
  17. 17Chapter XVI
  18. 18Chapter XVII
  19. 19Chapter XVIII
  20. 20Chapter XIX
  21. 21Chapter XX
  22. 22Chapter XXI
  23. 23Chapter XXII
  24. 24Part II
  25. 25Chapter I
  26. 26Chapter II
  27. 27Chapter III
  28. 28Chapter IV
  29. 29Chapter V
  30. 30Chapter VI
  31. 31Chapter VII
  32. 32Chapter VIII
  33. 33Chapter IX
  34. 34Chapter X
  35. 35Chapter XI
  36. 36Chapter XII
  37. 37Chapter XIII
  38. 38Chapter XIV
  39. 39Chapter XV
  40. 40Chapter XVI
  41. 41When Miltoun at last came it was past nine o'clock.
  42. 42Chapter XVII
  43. 43Chapter XVIII
  44. 44Chapter XIX
  45. 45Chapter XX
  46. 46Chapter XXI
  47. 47Chapter XXII
  48. 48Chapter XXIII
  49. 49Chapter XXIV
  50. 50Chapter XXV
  51. 51Chapter XXVI
  52. 52Chapter XXVII
  53. 53Chapter XXVIII
  54. 54Chapter XXIX
  55. 55Chapter XXX

About this edition

Author
John Galsworthy
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
294 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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