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 competit The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy od authora John Galsworthy a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
John Galsworthy |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
912 |
Rok vydání |
2007 |
Nakladatelství |
Oxford University Press |