A Modern Comedy: The White Monkey; A Silent Wooing; The Silver Spoon; Passers By
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
A landmark of early twentieth-century British fiction, A Modern Comedy presents John Galsworthy's sweeping continuation of the Forsyte saga, gathering three novels — The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon, and Swan Song — alongside the interlude A Silent Wooing and the short piece Passers By into a single, unified chronicle of English upper-middle-class life in the restless years following the First World War. With incisive social observation and a tone that balances irony with genuine pathos, Galsworthy traces the fortunes of the Forsyte and Mont families as they navigate a society unmoored from its Victorian certainties, grappling with infidelity, financial speculation, class anxiety, and the seductive chaos of the Jazz Age. At the center stands Fleur Mont, one of Galsworthy's most brilliantly rendered characters — ambitious, charming, and ultimately tragic — whose relentless pursuit of what she cannot have illustrates the spiritual hollowness lurking beneath Edwardian prosperity's glittering surface. The narrative unfolds with the measured, elegant prose that earned Galsworthy the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, offering readers both a richly entertaining story and a penetrating critique of a world clinging to privilege while the ground shifts beneath its feet.
Author: John Galsworthy
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
A landmark of early twentieth-century British fiction, A Modern Comedy presents John Galsworthy's sweeping continuation of the Forsyte saga, gathering three novels — The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon, and Swan Song — alongside the interlude A Silent Wooing and the short piece Passers By into a single, unified chronicle of English upper-middle-class life in the restless years following the First World War. With incisive social observation and a tone that balances irony with genuine pathos, Galsworthy traces the fortunes of the Forsyte and Mont families as they navigate a society unmoored from its Victorian certainties, grappling with infidelity, financial speculation, class anxiety, and the seductive chaos of the Jazz Age. At the center stands Fleur Mont, one of Galsworthy's most brilliantly rendered characters — ambitious, charming, and ultimately tragic — whose relentless pursuit of what she cannot have illustrates the spiritual hollowness lurking beneath Edwardian prosperity's glittering surface. The narrative unfolds with the measured, elegant prose that earned Galsworthy the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, offering readers both a richly entertaining story and a penetrating critique of a world clinging to privilege while the ground shifts beneath its feet.