The Dark Flower

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The Dark Flower is a book by John Galsworthy. A youth walks along Holywell on an afternoon of early June with his short gown drooping down his arms, and no cap on his thick dark hair. A quoted epigraph says to take the flower from my breast, I pray thee, and then go hence, for see, the night is fair.

Peasant girls in their blue linen skirts are shown already gathering into bundles what the men had scythed. A boy who had never been out of England before finds everything strange and glamorous. A figure walks quickly down a street close to the houses on the further side, sees that the windows of her house were lighted, and wonders whether there is no way to bring her to the window.

About the author

John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy trained as a barrister but devoted his career to novels, plays, and short fiction about English social life. The Forsyte Saga, the family chronicle singled out when he received the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature, brings together three novels and two interludes.