Forsyte saga
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c2006
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A cut-glass chandelier filled with lighted candles hung like a giant stalactite above its centre, radiating over large gilt-framed mirrors, slabs of marble on the tops of side-tables, and heavy gold chairs with crewel worked seats. Everything betokened that love of beauty so deeply implanted in each family which has had its own way to make into Society, out of the more vulgar heart of Nature.
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In chancery , Forsyte saga volume 2
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To let , Forsyte saga volume 3
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The white monkey , Forsyte saga volume 4
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The silver spoon , Forsyte saga volume 5
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6) Swan song
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The final novel of "a social satire of epic proportions and one that does not suffer by comparison with Thackeray's Vanity Fair" (The New York Times).
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932
Set against the backdrop of a post–World War I Britain, now rocked by a general strike, Swan Song captures the staunch resilience-and ridiculousness-of the British upper middle class, who view this new national crisis as just a...
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Maid in waiting , Forsyte saga volume 7
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Flowering wilderness , Forsyte saga volume 8
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Over the river , Forsyte saga volume 9
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10) The Forsyte saga
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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. This, the only critical edition of Galsworthy's popular masterpiece, contains detailed notes which are vital to the saga, explaining particularly the contemporary artistic and literary allusions, and slang of the time.