The Man Of Property
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:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of Victorian England's prosperous upper-middle class stands Soames Forsyte, a solicitor of iron will and cold ambition whose obsessive need to possess — people as much as property — sets in motion a tragedy of suffocating consequence. The Man of Property, the first instalment of John Galsworthy's sweeping The Forsyte Saga and published as Book 1 of The Forsyte Chronicles, chronicles the tensions within the vast, wealth-obsessed Forsyte clan as Soames's beautiful wife, Irene, silently rebels against a marriage that treats her as nothing more than an acquisition. Against the gilded backdrop of 1880s London, Galsworthy dissects the collision between aesthetic freedom and mercantile respectability with surgical precision, drawing the battle lines between love and ownership that will echo across generations. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, Galsworthy crafted a work of profound social criticism that stands as one of the most incisive portraits of the English propertied class ever committed to print. His prose is measured and ironic, rich with a quiet moral fury that accumulates into something devastating — an indictment not of villainy, but of the far more chilling crime of sheer lovelessness. This Penguin edition, tied to the iconic BBC television production The Forsyte Saga, introduced the novel to a new generation of readers, and the question it poses — whether beauty can ever truly be owned — remains as urgent and unanswered as ever.
Author: John Galsworthy
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of Victorian England's prosperous upper-middle class stands Soames Forsyte, a solicitor of iron will and cold ambition whose obsessive need to possess — people as much as property — sets in motion a tragedy of suffocating consequence. The Man of Property, the first instalment of John Galsworthy's sweeping The Forsyte Saga and published as Book 1 of The Forsyte Chronicles, chronicles the tensions within the vast, wealth-obsessed Forsyte clan as Soames's beautiful wife, Irene, silently rebels against a marriage that treats her as nothing more than an acquisition. Against the gilded backdrop of 1880s London, Galsworthy dissects the collision between aesthetic freedom and mercantile respectability with surgical precision, drawing the battle lines between love and ownership that will echo across generations. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, Galsworthy crafted a work of profound social criticism that stands as one of the most incisive portraits of the English propertied class ever committed to print. His prose is measured and ironic, rich with a quiet moral fury that accumulates into something devastating — an indictment not of villainy, but of the far more chilling crime of sheer lovelessness. This Penguin edition, tied to the iconic BBC television production The Forsyte Saga, introduced the novel to a new generation of readers, and the question it poses — whether beauty can ever truly be owned — remains as urgent and unanswered as ever.