The Forsythe Saga (The Great Writers Library) - Couverture rigide

John Galsworthy

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ISBN 10 : 0863076971 ISBN 13 : 9780863076978

Editeur : Marshall Cavendish, 1988

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize–winning English author John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of a large commercial upper-middle-class English family, similar to Galsworthy's own.[1] Only a few generations removed from their farmer ancestors, the family members are keenly aware of their status as "new money". The main character, Soames Forsyte, sees himself as a "man of property" by virtue of his ability to accumulate material possessions—but this does not succeed in bringing him pleasure. Separate sections of the saga, as well as the lengthy story in its entirety, have been adapted for cinema and television. The first book, The Man of Property, was adapted in 1949 by Hollywood as That Forsyte Woman, starring Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Robert Young. The BBC produced a popular 26-part serial in 1967, that also dramatised a subsequent trilogy concerning the Forsytes, A Modern Comedy. In 2002, Granada Television produced two series for the ITV network called The Forsyte Saga and The Forsyte Saga: To Let, and the two Granada series made their runs in the US as part of Masterpiece Theatre. In 2003, The Forsyte Saga was listed as #123 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel".[2] Following The Forsyte Saga, Galsworthy would go on to write two more trilogies and several more interludes also based around the titular family; the resulting series is collectively called The Forsyte Chronicles.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Una data, due autori, quattro storie sul 25 aprile 1974. La rivoluzione dei garofani raccontata da quattro personaggi, in quattro contesti sociali, geografici e umani diversi: un bambino che ha appena pescato la sua prima trota, la vista di un gerarca di provincia in un paesino del nord del Portogallo, la protesta di un plotone di reclute in una base militare, una particolare somossa popolare in Angola. Frammenti da un passato recente, da uno degli ultimi regimi dittatoriali del vecchio continente.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Marshall Cavendish
• Date d'édition: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0863076971
• ISBN 13: 9780863076978
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1