End Of The Chapter
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
The final curtain falls on one of English literature's most celebrated family sagas in End of the Chapter, John Galsworthy's triumphant conclusion to his sweeping chronicle of the Forsyte dynasty. This omnibus volume gathers the last three novels — Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness, and One More River — following a new generation of the Cherrell family as they navigate the treacherous currents of love, honour, social obligation, and a rapidly changing England between the two World Wars. With the same penetrating eye he turned upon the Forsytes, Galsworthy dissects the anxieties of a patrician class struggling to maintain its dignity and values against the tide of modernity, weaving together personal crises and imperial decline into a richly textured narrative tapestry. Galsworthy, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, demonstrates here the full mastery of his craft — a measured, ironic prose style that renders even the quietest domestic scene charged with social significance. His characters are not mere archetypes but fully realised human beings, caught between duty and desire, tradition and change, in a world that no longer quite fits the shape they were made for. For readers who have followed the Forsyte Saga, this conclusion offers both the satisfaction of closure and the bittersweet recognition that some chapters, once ended, can never truly be reopened.
Author: John Galsworthy
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
The final curtain falls on one of English literature's most celebrated family sagas in End of the Chapter, John Galsworthy's triumphant conclusion to his sweeping chronicle of the Forsyte dynasty. This omnibus volume gathers the last three novels — Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness, and One More River — following a new generation of the Cherrell family as they navigate the treacherous currents of love, honour, social obligation, and a rapidly changing England between the two World Wars. With the same penetrating eye he turned upon the Forsytes, Galsworthy dissects the anxieties of a patrician class struggling to maintain its dignity and values against the tide of modernity, weaving together personal crises and imperial decline into a richly textured narrative tapestry. Galsworthy, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, demonstrates here the full mastery of his craft — a measured, ironic prose style that renders even the quietest domestic scene charged with social significance. His characters are not mere archetypes but fully realised human beings, caught between duty and desire, tradition and change, in a world that no longer quite fits the shape they were made for. For readers who have followed the Forsyte Saga, this conclusion offers both the satisfaction of closure and the bittersweet recognition that some chapters, once ended, can never truly be reopened.