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The Forsyte saga / John Galsworthy ; edited with an introduction and notes by Geoffrey Harvey.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2008]Description: xxvii, 872 pages : genealogical table ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199549894
  • 0199549893
Related works:
  • Container of (work): Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. Man of property
  • Container of (work): Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. In chancery
  • Container of (work): Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. To let
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Contents:
The man of property. Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1906 -- In Chancery. Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1920 -- To let. Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1921.
Summary: The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. This, the only critical edition of Galsworthy's popular masterpiece, contains detailed notes which are vital to the saga, explaining particularly the contemporary artistic and literary allusions, and slang of the time.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction GALSWORT JOHN Available 33111010783690
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife Irene reverberates throughout the saga. Written with both compassion and ironic detachment, Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only the family's fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women in an intensely competitive male world. Above all, Galsworthy is concerned with the conflict at the heart of English culture between the soulless materialism of wealth and property and the humane instincts of love, beauty, and art.

Includes bibliographical references.

The man of property. Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1906 -- In Chancery. Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1920 -- To let. Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1921.

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. This, the only critical edition of Galsworthy's popular masterpiece, contains detailed notes which are vital to the saga, explaining particularly the contemporary artistic and literary allusions, and slang of the time.

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