John Galsworthy

Broschiertes Buch

Beyond

Beschreibung

A piercing, humane light on a society in flux, Beyond illuminates the edges of wealth, duty, and desire with uncanny clarity. This classic british novel from the early twentieth century arrives in a new edition that treats John Galsworthy's meditation on class and wealth with the care it deserves. Through intimate portraits of marriage, money, and social obligation, the book moves from quiet drawing rooms to the broader currents of urban and rural life, offering a rich tapestry of Edwardian era fiction that still resonates today. It is a social realism novel in the best sense: precise, humane, and unflinching about the forces that shape a life. Beyond holds enduring literary and historical significance as a public domain fiction cornerstone whose themes press against modern concerns of finance, duty, and ambition. It sits comfortably on library reading lists and as a university study text, inviting both casual readers and classic-literature collectors to engage with its careful craft and moral questions. This edition is more than a reprint-it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure, restored for today's readers and for future generations to draw inspiration from. Out of print for decades, Alpha Editions brings it back with reverence and care. A true artifact of its era, and a living invitation to reexamine our own world through Galsworthy's incisive lens.

Autor

John Galsworthy was an English dramatist and novelist who lived from 14 August 1867 to 31 January 1933. His novels, The Forsyte Saga, and two more trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter, are his best-known works. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. Galsworthy, who came from a wealthy upper-middle-class family, was expected to become a lawyer, but he found the profession unappealing, so he resorted to literature. Before his first book, The Man of Property, about the Forsyte family, was released in 1897, he was thirty years old. It wasn't until that book the first of its kind that he saw true popularity. His debut play, The Silver Box, had its London premiere the same year. As a writer, he gained notoriety for his socially conscious plays that addressed issues such as the politics and morality of war, the persecution of women, the use of solitary confinement in prisons, the battle of workers against exploitation, and jingoism. The patriarch, Old Jolyon, is based on Galsworthy's father, and the Forsyte family in the collection of books and short tales known as The Forsyte Chronicles is comparable to Galsworthy's family in many aspects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9789354844478
• ISBN-10: 9354844472
• Artikelnr.: 62346734