Galsworthy: 239 books

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The Forsyte Saga depicts the volatile mixture of love and money. The tartly rendered narrative of the Forsyte clan reveals both adultery and intrigue as it pins down the English national character. Translated into many...

This 1907 novel—later specifically cited by the Nobel Committee—is set in an English country house that stands as a microcosm of genteel society, where Victorian mores are coming into conflict with the realities of modern industrial life.  When young George Pendyce falls for a "common" woman, the cracks in his family life are revealed.

Intrigues dans la haute bourgeoisie anglaise sur trois générations.Un classique de la littérature anglaiseVingt ans ont passé depuis le divorce de Soames et d'Irène. L'un et l'autre se sont remariés. Une troisième génération de Forsyte s'apprête à occuper le devant de la scène dans cette...

Intrigues dans la haute bourgeoisie anglaise sur trois générations.Un classique de la littérature anglaisePrès de dix ans ont passé depuis la mort du vieux Jolyon Forsyte, le fondateur de la dynastie. Mais la relève semble assurée. Soames, notamment, a su faire de sa charge d'avoué l'une des...

Secondo volume della celebre Saga dei Forsyte. Il vecchio Joylon, l’ultimo grande patriarca della famiglia, si riavvicina lentamente a Irene. Soames, deluso e amareggiato, non dimentica invece quella che un tempo è stata (ed è ancora) sua moglie. Dopo l’ennesimo rifiuto della donna, sarà un...

I He walked along Holywell that afternoon of early June with his short gown drooping down his arms, and no cap on his thick dark hair. A youth of middle height, and built as if he had come of two very different strains, one sturdy, the other wiry and light. His face, too, was a curious blend, for, though...

Under a burning blue sky, among the pine-trees and junipers, the cypresses and olives of that Odyssean coast, we came one afternoon on a pink house bearing the legend: “Osteria di Tranquillita, ”; and, partly because of the name, and partly because we did not expect to find a house at all in those...