A Modern Comedy
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A Modern Comedy is John Galsworthy's masterful continuation of his celebrated Forsyte Chronicles, a sweeping omnibus that binds together three novels — The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon, and Swan Song — alongside two interludes, tracing the fortunes of the Forsyte family through the turbulent, disillusioned years of post-WWI Britain. At its centre stands Soames Forsyte, the complex, property-obsessed patriarch whose rigid Victorian sensibilities are perpetually at war with a world that has moved on without him, while his daughter Fleur navigates the glittering, hollow social landscape of the 1920s with an ambition and restlessness that mirrors the age itself. Galsworthy, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, chronicles the slow dissolution of an entire social order with a precision and irony that elevates domestic drama into profound cultural commentary. His prose is measured and assured, weaving satire with genuine pathos as he illustrates the collision between old money and new morality, between duty and desire. A monument of English literature, this trilogy leaves the reader with an aching question: in a world stripped of its certainties, what endures?
Author: John Galsworthy
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A Modern Comedy is John Galsworthy's masterful continuation of his celebrated Forsyte Chronicles, a sweeping omnibus that binds together three novels — The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon, and Swan Song — alongside two interludes, tracing the fortunes of the Forsyte family through the turbulent, disillusioned years of post-WWI Britain. At its centre stands Soames Forsyte, the complex, property-obsessed patriarch whose rigid Victorian sensibilities are perpetually at war with a world that has moved on without him, while his daughter Fleur navigates the glittering, hollow social landscape of the 1920s with an ambition and restlessness that mirrors the age itself. Galsworthy, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, chronicles the slow dissolution of an entire social order with a precision and irony that elevates domestic drama into profound cultural commentary. His prose is measured and assured, weaving satire with genuine pathos as he illustrates the collision between old money and new morality, between duty and desire. A monument of English literature, this trilogy leaves the reader with an aching question: in a world stripped of its certainties, what endures?