A Modern Comedy: Swan Song
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A Modern Comedy is a sweeping trilogy by Nobel Prize-winning British author John Galsworthy, continuing the saga of the Forsyte family beyond his celebrated The Forsyte Saga. Swan Song, the concluding volume of the trilogy, chronicles the twilight of the old Forsyte world against the backdrop of the 1926 British General Strike, weaving together themes of love, loss, and social change with Galsworthy's characteristic elegance and irony. The narrative centres on Soames Forsyte — one of English literature's most enduring characters — as he navigates a changing society that is slowly leaving him behind, while the romantic entanglements of the younger generation play out with quiet tragedy. Galsworthy illustrates the inevitable passage of an era with restrained melancholy, capturing the tension between tradition and modernity in Edwardian and post-Edwardian England. This Heron Books edition presents the text with original illustrations by Christopher W. Bradbury, making it a handsome collectible for admirers of classic British fiction.
Author: John Galsworthy
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Heron Books
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A Modern Comedy is a sweeping trilogy by Nobel Prize-winning British author John Galsworthy, continuing the saga of the Forsyte family beyond his celebrated The Forsyte Saga. Swan Song, the concluding volume of the trilogy, chronicles the twilight of the old Forsyte world against the backdrop of the 1926 British General Strike, weaving together themes of love, loss, and social change with Galsworthy's characteristic elegance and irony. The narrative centres on Soames Forsyte — one of English literature's most enduring characters — as he navigates a changing society that is slowly leaving him behind, while the romantic entanglements of the younger generation play out with quiet tragedy. Galsworthy illustrates the inevitable passage of an era with restrained melancholy, capturing the tension between tradition and modernity in Edwardian and post-Edwardian England. This Heron Books edition presents the text with original illustrations by Christopher W. Bradbury, making it a handsome collectible for admirers of classic British fiction.