Beyond: A Father, a Daughter, and the Fiddler She Married
John Galsworthy
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Spencer Gore and Robert Bevan. Gyp, daughter of a Sussex squire, marries a Swedish violinist for his music and finds she has married a man; the marriage will not end, because English law of the day did not much care what she wanted. Galsworthy was a barrister who never practised and met Joseph Conrad, then a ship's first mate, on a voyage home from Australia; this 1917 novel is his quietest attack on the divorce law, and the violin is not a symbol — it is the rival. Fifty-seven plates by painters from Millet to Munch, Tissot to Orpen, trace the marriage market and its discontents across Europe from 1859 to 1928.
Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Spencer Gore and Robert Bevan. Gyp, daughter of a Sussex squire, marries a Swedish violinist for his music and finds she has married a man; the marriage will not end, because English law of the day did not much care what she wante...
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John Galsworthy (1867–1933) was an English novelist and playwright. His works include The Dark Flower, The Freelands, Beyond, Saint's Progress, Five Tales, The Island Pharisees, The Country House, Fraternity, and The Patrician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
John Galsworthy (1867–1933) was an English novelist and playwright. His works include The Dark Flower, The Freelands, Beyond, Saint's Progress, Five Tales, The Island Pharisees, The Country House, Fraternity, and The Patrician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
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