The Country House
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Book: Fair
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Pages: Good
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A sharp and incisive work of Edwardian social fiction, The Country House chronicles the rigid world of the Pendyce family, landed English gentry whose lives revolve around tradition, property, and the preservation of their privileged way of life. Galsworthy presents the tensions that erupt when George Pendyce, the heir to Worsted Skeynes, becomes entangled in a scandalous affair with a married woman, threatening the family's carefully maintained respectability. With biting satirical wit, the novel illustrates the hypocrisy and moral complacency lurking beneath the surface of upper-class English society, skewering the very institutions — the Church, the law, and the landed aristocracy — that sustain it. Galsworthy argues, with quiet but devastating precision, that the country house itself is less a home than a symbol of an entire class's desperate resistance to change. Written with the same penetrating social conscience that defines his celebrated Forsyte Saga, this novel stands as a masterful critique of Edwardian England at the height of its self-satisfaction.
Author: John Galsworthy
Format: Hardback
Published: 1911, Heron Books
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A sharp and incisive work of Edwardian social fiction, The Country House chronicles the rigid world of the Pendyce family, landed English gentry whose lives revolve around tradition, property, and the preservation of their privileged way of life. Galsworthy presents the tensions that erupt when George Pendyce, the heir to Worsted Skeynes, becomes entangled in a scandalous affair with a married woman, threatening the family's carefully maintained respectability. With biting satirical wit, the novel illustrates the hypocrisy and moral complacency lurking beneath the surface of upper-class English society, skewering the very institutions — the Church, the law, and the landed aristocracy — that sustain it. Galsworthy argues, with quiet but devastating precision, that the country house itself is less a home than a symbol of an entire class's desperate resistance to change. Written with the same penetrating social conscience that defines his celebrated Forsyte Saga, this novel stands as a masterful critique of Edwardian England at the height of its self-satisfaction.