John Galsworthy

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 competitive male world. Above all, Galsworthy is concerned with the conflict at the heart of English culture between the soulless materialism of wealth and prope rty and the humane instincts of love, beauty, and art.

Rozhlasová dramatizace slavného románu. Učinkují:Veronika Žilková, Vladimír Ráž, Jiří Holý, František Němec, Stella Zázvorková, Bořivoj Navrátil, Jan Hartl, Daniela Kolářová, Viktor Preiss, Lubomír Lipský, Blanka Bohdanová, Jiří Plachý, Martina Hudečková, Lukáš Hlavica, Jana Drbohlavová a další... Audio 6 CD.

Velké společenské změny s sebou nesou i změny charakteru. Nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu, romanopisec Galsworthy,byl svědkem přerodu britské společnosti z pozdně viktoriánské v moderní a jako pečlivý kronikář zaznamenal na osudech vyšší vrstvy úpadek duchovních hodnota narůstající fixaci na hodnoty materiální.

Dvojjazyčné vydání doplněné lexikálním a gramatickým komentářem pod čarou.

This monumental trilogy by the Nobel Prize-winning author chronicles the lives of three generations of an upper-middle-class London family obsessed with money and respectability. The Forsyte Saga enormously influenced views held by Americans and Europeans of Victorian and Edwardian life and it remains an excellent contribution to social history and literary art.

In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

John Galsworthy 1913-as regénye az emberi élet talán leguniverzálisabb jelenségeit, a reménytelen szerelmet és a mindennapok mélyén megbúvó szenvedélyt dolgozza föl Mark Lennan férfivá érése kapcsán. A történet harminc éve alatt nyomon követhetjük, m iként válik az aluliskolázott fiatalemberből oxfordi diák, majd látszólag boldog házasember. Ám a harmonikus felszín csupán illúzió, a mélyben sötét kétségek mardossák a férfi szívét, melyre feleségén kívül egy másik nő is igényt tart...

The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy's magnificent, well-loved "Forsyte Chronicles", which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional disaster. "The Forsyte Saga" begins as the nineteenth century is drawing to a close, and the upper middle classes, with their property and propriety, are becoming a dying section of society. The Forsytes are blind to this fact, clinging to their conventions and 'brilliant respectability'. As dignified Soames Forsyte struggles to uphold the old moral code in the face of the social revolution resulting from the Great War, his wife Irene's extraordinary beauty causes even more disruption. The bitter feud between them comes to split the Forsyte family for two generations.

In this final volume of "The Forsyte Saga", Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. Galsworthy's portrayal of the effect of political change on individuals show him as a great social novelist as well as the author of one of the most gripping family sagas ever written.

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. This is the only critical edition of the work available, with Notes that explain contemporary artistic and literary allusions and define the slang of the time.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.