End Of The Chapter
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
A sweeping work of literary fiction, End of the Chapter chronicles the final installment of John Galsworthy's celebrated Forsyte Chronicles, following the Cherrell family — the aristocratic cousins of the Forsytes — through the social and moral upheavals of early twentieth-century England. Comprising three novels — Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness, and Over the River — the sequence traces themes of honor, duty, love, and the slow erosion of the English upper class in the face of a rapidly modernizing world. With his characteristic blend of quiet irony and deep social conscience, Galsworthy illustrates how personal integrity collides with public expectation, most pointedly in the story of Wilfrid Desert, a poet whose renunciation of his faith under duress in the Middle East renders him a social outcast. The narrative unfolds with the measured, elegant prose that earned Galsworthy the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, presenting a portrait of a class and a civilization standing at the threshold of irreversible change. Poignant and perceptive, this concluding saga stands as a fitting farewell to one of English literature's most enduring fictional dynasties.
Author: John Galsworthy
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Heinemann, London
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
A sweeping work of literary fiction, End of the Chapter chronicles the final installment of John Galsworthy's celebrated Forsyte Chronicles, following the Cherrell family — the aristocratic cousins of the Forsytes — through the social and moral upheavals of early twentieth-century England. Comprising three novels — Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness, and Over the River — the sequence traces themes of honor, duty, love, and the slow erosion of the English upper class in the face of a rapidly modernizing world. With his characteristic blend of quiet irony and deep social conscience, Galsworthy illustrates how personal integrity collides with public expectation, most pointedly in the story of Wilfrid Desert, a poet whose renunciation of his faith under duress in the Middle East renders him a social outcast. The narrative unfolds with the measured, elegant prose that earned Galsworthy the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, presenting a portrait of a class and a civilization standing at the threshold of irreversible change. Poignant and perceptive, this concluding saga stands as a fitting farewell to one of English literature's most enduring fictional dynasties.