The Forsyte Saga: The Man Of Property; Indian Summer Of A Forsyte
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Book: Fair
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A landmark of English literature, The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property; Indian Summer of a Forsyte chronicles the lives of the wealthy, upper-middle-class Forsyte family in late Victorian England, dissecting their obsessive relationship with property, status, and possession. At the heart of the narrative stands Soames Forsyte, a solicitor whose cold, acquisitive nature drives him to treat his beautiful wife Irene as little more than another asset to be owned, setting in motion a tragedy of repressed emotion and social hypocrisy. Galsworthy writes with incisive, ironic authority, using the Forsytes as a lens through which he indicts an entire class defined by materialism and the inability to feel. The companion piece, Indian Summer of a Forsyte, offers a lyrical and elegiac counterpoint, presenting the aged Jolyon Forsyte's tender, twilight friendship with Irene as a meditation on beauty, loss, and the things that cannot be owned. Together, these two works establish the moral and emotional foundation of one of the great family sagas in the English language, earning Galsworthy the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
Author: John Galsworthy
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Heron Books
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark of English literature, The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property; Indian Summer of a Forsyte chronicles the lives of the wealthy, upper-middle-class Forsyte family in late Victorian England, dissecting their obsessive relationship with property, status, and possession. At the heart of the narrative stands Soames Forsyte, a solicitor whose cold, acquisitive nature drives him to treat his beautiful wife Irene as little more than another asset to be owned, setting in motion a tragedy of repressed emotion and social hypocrisy. Galsworthy writes with incisive, ironic authority, using the Forsytes as a lens through which he indicts an entire class defined by materialism and the inability to feel. The companion piece, Indian Summer of a Forsyte, offers a lyrical and elegiac counterpoint, presenting the aged Jolyon Forsyte's tender, twilight friendship with Irene as a meditation on beauty, loss, and the things that cannot be owned. Together, these two works establish the moral and emotional foundation of one of the great family sagas in the English language, earning Galsworthy the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.