The Forsyte Saga

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PENGUIN TWENTIETH -CENTURY CLASSICS
JOHN GALSWORTHY The Forsyte Saga
'About the Forsytes mingling that day there was a more than ordinarily groomed look, an alert, inquisitive assurance, a brilliant respectability, as though they were attired in defiance of something'
As the nineteenth century draws to a close the upper-middle classes, with their property and propriety, are a diminishing section of society. The Forsytes are deliberately blind to this fact, surrounding themselves with a self-righteous conventionality and a determination to maintain the status quo.
Soames Forsyte struggles to uphold a moral code in the face of the social revolution resulting from the Great War and his wife's extraordinary but disruptive beauty. A dignified but pathetic figure, he is the thread that runs through these first three volumes of Galsworthy's master work.
'Galsworthy's unfailing sense of, his sensitivity towards individuality really brings to life a world that so often is judged to... Tovább

Fülszöveg

PENGUIN TWENTIETH -CENTURY CLASSICS
JOHN GALSWORTHY The Forsyte Saga
'About the Forsytes mingling that day there was a more than ordinarily groomed look, an alert, inquisitive assurance, a brilliant respectability, as though they were attired in defiance of something'
As the nineteenth century draws to a close the upper-middle classes, with their property and propriety, are a diminishing section of society. The Forsytes are deliberately blind to this fact, surrounding themselves with a self-righteous conventionality and a determination to maintain the status quo.
Soames Forsyte struggles to uphold a moral code in the face of the social revolution resulting from the Great War and his wife's extraordinary but disruptive beauty. A dignified but pathetic figure, he is the thread that runs through these first three volumes of Galsworthy's master work.
'Galsworthy's unfailing sense of, his sensitivity towards individuality really brings to life a world that so often is judged to be too remote to be true The narrative flows on with a compulsive and leisurely naturalness — it is at all levels, readability itself — Financial Times
A Modern Comedy and The End of the Chapter, which together make up the other six novels in his famous series, are also published in Penguin.
The cover shows a detail from Afternoon Tea by Rene Lelong courtesy of the Fine Art Photographic Library, London Vissza