Скачать или смотреть LANDED GENTRY, Somerset Maugham's Four Act Play rendered as a Short Story, Narrated by Daniel

At Kenyon-Fulton, the old house breathes with the weight of tradition: portraits of long-dead Insoleys glower from the walls, rules stretch back through generations, and the land itself seems bound to the family by law and blood. Into this world comes a scandal that threatens to uproot it all—a gamekeeper’s daughter returns home disgraced, and the rigid code of the estate demands her exile. Caught between law and love is Claude Insoley, the precise, dutiful heir who believes discipline is the bedrock of his class. Standing against him is his restless wife, Grace—trapped by marriage, haunted by temptation, and suddenly discovering that she loves her husband too late. Between them lies a secret affair, a young girl’s desperate fate, and the brutal question: can honor survive when mercy demands its sacrifice? As tensions flare—between gentry and villagers, between brothers and rivals, between mothers and daughters-in-law—the old order begins to crack. Landed Gentry is a story of power and pity, hypocrisy and passion, of women struggling to breathe within walls built by men, and of one family learning that the cruelest rules are the ones they refuse to break.