The Man of Property - Couverture souple

Galsworthy, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140031960 ISBN 13 : 9780140031966

Editeur : Viking Pr, 1977

Synopsis

Book by Galsworthy John

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Forsyte Saga was the title originally destined for that part of it which is called The Man of Property ;and to adopt it for the collected chronicles of the Forsyte family has indulged the Forsytean tenacity that is in all of us. The word Saga might be objected to on the ground that it connotes the heroic and that there is little heroism in these pages. But it is used with a suitable irony ;and, after all, this long tale, though it may deal with folk in frock coats, furbelows, and a gilt-edged period, is not devoid of the essential heat of conflict. Discounting for the gigantic stature and blood-thirstiness of old days, as they have come down to us in fairy-tale and legend, the folk of the old Sagas were Forsytes, assuredly, in their possessive instincts, and as little proof against the inroads of beauty and passion as Swithin, Soames, or even young Jolyon. And if heroic figures, in days that never were, seem to startle out from their surroundings in fashion unbecoming to a Forsyte of the Victorian era, we may be sure that tribal instinct was even then the prime force, and that family and the sense of home and property counted as they do to this day, for all the recent efforts to talk them out. So many people have written and claimed that their families were the originals of the Forsytes that one has been almost encouraged to believe in the typicality of an imagined species. Manners change and modes evolve, and Timothy son the Bayswater Road becomes a nest of the unbelievable in all except essentials ;we shall not look upon its like again, nor perhaps on such a one as James or old Jolyon. And yet the figures of Insurance Societies and the utterances of Judges reassure us daily that our earthly paradise is still a rich preserve, where the wild raiders, Beauty and Passion, come stealing in, filching security from beneath our noses. As surely as a dog will b
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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Forsytes have seen that channixig and instructive sight an upper middle-class family in full plumage. But whosoever of these favoured persons has possessed the gift of psychological analjrsis (a talent without monetary value and properly ignored by the Forsytes) has witnessed a spectacle, not only delightful in itself, but illustrative of an obscure human problem. In plainer words, he has gleaned from a gathering of this family no branch of which had a liking for the other, between no three members of whom existed anything worthy of the name of sympathy evidence of that mysterious concrete tenacity which renders a family so formidable a unit of society, so clear a reproduction of society in miniature. He has been admitted to a vision of the dim roads of social progress, has understood something of patriarchal life, of the swarmings of savage hordes, of the rise and fall of nations.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Viking Pr
• Date d'édition: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0140031960
• ISBN 13: 9780140031966
• Reliure: Broché