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The three novels that make up this trilogy have long been recognized as masterpieces of 20th-century literature, and Galsworthy as one of its leading exponents. But don’t let that be the reason you put off listening to this wonderful work. There are passion and lust in these pages, high art and low comedy, and unthinking violence that ride alongside ever-correct manners. Scandal, tragedy, despair, rape, accidental death, marriage, remarriage and a healthy leavening of births all unfold against a rolling backdrop of a world war.

The Dark Flower has a universal theme - the positive powers and the disruptive effects of sexuality and desire. It is the story of Mark Lennan and his infatuation, adulterous affair, conventional marriage and obsession for a younger woman. The author drew on his own experiences for much of the substance of his work and was truly a free thinker with regard to the relationship between the sexes.

Roman angliyskogo pisatelya Dzhona Golsuorsi "V petle" (1920), vtoroy iz ego znamenitoy trilogii "Saga o Forsaytah", opisyvaet tot period zhizni Somsa Forsayta, kogda on pytaetsya naladit' svoi zaputannye semeynye otnosheniya, vysvobodit'sya iz petli, voznikshey v rezul'tate ego razryva s Irehn, ego pervoy zhenoy, i sozdat' novuyu sem'yu.

The "man of property", Soames Forsyte, has mellowed with the passing of the years until, in his old age, he is a patient and benign figure, guarding with especial tenderness the welfare of his daughter, Fleur. But all his watchfulness and devotion are powerless to avert tragedy when Fleur revives her old love affair with Jon Forsyte on Jon's return to England with his American wife.

The White Monkey is the fourth of the nine novels in The Forsyte Chronicles and marks the opening of the second trilogy in the series, called A Modern Comedy. In this new chapter, Fleur and Michael Mont begin to question their marriage when their good friend, author Wilfred Desert, can no longer contain his passion for Fleur. Fleur finds herself torn between her love for Michael and passion for Wilfred.

“So many people have written and claimed that their families were the original of the Forsytes,” wrote Galsworthy, “that one has almost been encouraged to believe in the typicality of an imagine species.” It is the Spring of 1920, 34 years on from the beginning of the Saga. “Young Jolyon” is married to Irene after her divorce from Soames, and they now have a son, Jon. Soames has re-married and has a daughter, Fleur. A new generation of Forsytes comes of age and the Saga continues.

Kontynuacja „Sagi rodu Forsyte’ów”, pasjonującego cyklu powieściowego, który przyniósł Johnowi Galsworthy’emu literacką Nagrodę Nobla. Wielka epicka opowieść o angielskich wyższych sferach przełomu XIX i XX wieku. 

Kontynuacja „Sagi rodu Forsyte’ów”, pasjonującego cyklu powieściowego, który przyniósł Johnowi Galsworthy’emu literacką Nagrodę Nobla. Wielka epicka opowieść o angielskich wyższych sferach przełomu XIX i XX wieku.

Następuje tu metamorfoza głównego bohatera, Soamesa, który z egoisty i dorobkiewicza przeistacza się w dostojnego, uduchowionego dżentelmena. Pokolenie, które Galsworthy wcześniej krytykował za zdradę wartości ogólnoludzkich, staje się teraz według niego ich nosicielem; krytyce poddana zostaje natomiast najmłodsza generacja, przesiąknięta hedonizmem i nihilizmem.

"The Patrician" (1911) is a historical romance by John Galsworthy. Excerpt from the book: "Light, entering the vast room - a room so high that its carved ceiling refused itself to exact scrutiny - travelled, with the wistful, cold curiosity of the dawn, over a fantastic storehouse of Time. Light, unaccompanied by the prejudice of human eyes, made strange revelation of incongruities, as though illuminating the dispassionate march of history. For in this dining hall - one of the finest in England - the Caradoc family had for centuries assembled the trophies and records of their existence.

"Beyond" (1917) is a romance novel by John Galsworthy. Excerpt from the book: "On this grey February day he wore no overcoat; faithful to the absolute, almost shamefaced quietness of that wedding, he had not even donned black coat and silk hat, but wore a blue suit and a hard black felt. The instinct of a soldier and hunting man to exhibit no sign whatever of emotion did not desert him this dark day of his life.

"Saga o Forsaytah" - monumental'naya seriya raznoplanovyh proizvedeniy angliyskogo pisatelya Dzhona Golsuorsi, opisyvaet zhizn' sostoyatel'noy sem'i Forsaytov. V 1932 godu Golsuorsi poluchil Nobelevskuyu premiyu po literature za "vysokoe iskusstvo povestvovaniya, vershinoy kotorogo yavlyaetsya 'Saga o Forsaytah'".

Roman Dzhona Golsuorsi "Belaya obez'yana", vhodyashchiy v ego znamenituyu "Sagu o Forsaytah", risuet masshtabnuyu i krasochnuyu kartinu zhizni vtorogo pokoleniya Forsaytov, osvobodivshihsya ot bremeni predstavleniy i predrassudkov starshih predstaviteley roda i bezdumno otdavshihsya vihryu naslazhdeniy "novoy ehpohi".

V centre romana angliyskogo pisatelya Dzhona Golsuorsi "Sdayotsya vnayom" (1921), zavershayushchego ego znamenituyu trilogiyu "Saga o Forsaytah", - istoriya otnosheniy dvuh yunyh predstaviteley vrazhduyushchih vetvey roda Forsaytov, Fler i Dzhona. Chto okazhetsya sil'nee, nenavist' ili lyubov' - ehtot vopros derzhit chitatelya v napryazhenii na protyazhenii vsego romana.

"Serebryanaya lozhka" yavlyaetsya vtorym tomom "Sovremennoy komedii", vhodyashchiy v obshchiy cikl "Sagi o Forsaytah". V 1924 godu vse uzhe s dostatochnoy otchetlivost'yu soznavali, chto Britaniya sil'no izmenilas'. Ona stala sovsem ne ta, dovoennaya, dobraya staraya Angliya. Proizoshlo nechto neobratimoe v social'nom povedenii mass, v nravstvennom uklade vsey strany. Maykl Mont stal chlenom parlamenta i probuet provesti v zhizn' idei foggartizma.

Golsuorsi o Forsaytah. Raspad nekogda procvetavshey sem'i izobrazhaetsya na fone obshchestvennyh besporyadkov. Pisatel' filosofski osmyslyaet i sootnosit peremeny na nacional'nom i chastnom urovnyah. Kak i prochie romany o Forsaytah, "Lebedinaya pesnya" zahvatyvaet chitatelya uvlekatel'nost'yu syuzheta i poehtichnost'yu.

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English playwright and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. This collection presents five of Galsworthy's greatest stories: 'Quality', 'A Long Ago Affair', 'Blackmail', 'Spindleberries', 'A Strange Thing'.

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English playwright and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. 'A Strange Thing' is the story of a beautiful country wedding and the poignant backstory behind it.

John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933) was an English playwright and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. 'Quality' is a poignant tale of a master boot maker whose quest for perfection leads to his own tragic downfall.

The Man of Property, the first in the long series of novels written by John Galsworthy known as the Forsyte Saga, was written in 1906. It was the second novel that Galsworthy had published under his own name, the four novels previous to this being published privately under the pseudonym John Sinjohn. And, unlike its predecessors, it was a great success. It examined and dissected the habits, manners, snobberies and increasingly suffocating moral code of the upper-middle classes to which he belonged.