The Man Of Property: Book One Of The Forsyte Saga
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the heart of Victorian England's prosperous upper-middle class stands the Forsyte family — a clan so consumed by ownership, status, and the accumulation of beauty that they cannot distinguish between possessing property and possessing people. The Man of Property, the opening volume of John Galsworthy's monumental The Forsyte Saga, chronicles the life of Soames Forsyte, a wealthy solicitor whose cold, unyielding grip on his wife Irene sets in motion a tragedy of suppressed desire, social convention, and the quiet violence of a loveless marriage. Set against the gilded backdrop of late 19th-century London, the novel presents a devastating portrait of a society that prizes acquisition above all human feeling. Galsworthy writes with the precision of a social anatomist, dissecting the Forsyte world with irony that is at once gentle and merciless. His prose carries the measured weight of a man who both belongs to the world he critiques and stands apart from it — a tension that lends the narrative its remarkable moral complexity. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, Galsworthy's saga remains one of the great achievements of the English novel, and The Man of Property is its brilliant, disquieting foundation. What does a man truly own when the very thing he prizes most refuses to be owned?
Author: John Galsworthy
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the heart of Victorian England's prosperous upper-middle class stands the Forsyte family — a clan so consumed by ownership, status, and the accumulation of beauty that they cannot distinguish between possessing property and possessing people. The Man of Property, the opening volume of John Galsworthy's monumental The Forsyte Saga, chronicles the life of Soames Forsyte, a wealthy solicitor whose cold, unyielding grip on his wife Irene sets in motion a tragedy of suppressed desire, social convention, and the quiet violence of a loveless marriage. Set against the gilded backdrop of late 19th-century London, the novel presents a devastating portrait of a society that prizes acquisition above all human feeling. Galsworthy writes with the precision of a social anatomist, dissecting the Forsyte world with irony that is at once gentle and merciless. His prose carries the measured weight of a man who both belongs to the world he critiques and stands apart from it — a tension that lends the narrative its remarkable moral complexity. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, Galsworthy's saga remains one of the great achievements of the English novel, and The Man of Property is its brilliant, disquieting foundation. What does a man truly own when the very thing he prizes most refuses to be owned?