John Galsworthy

A Modern Comedy (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

When the Forsyte Saga began in 1886, England too had no future since it believed its present would last forever. It rode its bicycle in a state resembling a dream, interrupted only by Mr. Gladstone and the Irish Members. The England of 1926 is circling like a cat pursuing its tail with one foot in the air and the other in a Morris Oxford.The English are a nation that can't be rushed, are wary of extremes, are well-tempered, resentful of meddling, improvident, and wasteful, but are blessed with a particular knack for recovery. The grace of our protective humor only spares us. There is no Early Victorianism left in the modern day. The Victorianism of Soames and his generation is what has endured and has power. This Modern Comedy is presented against the backdrop of Soames and Sir Lawrence Mont, his father-in-law and co-star. Neo-Victorians like the pious Mr. Danby, Elderson, Mr. Blythe, Sir James Foskisson, Wilfred Bentworth, and Hilary Charwell are among those who appear in it.Who knows whether things will ever calm down once more? The basic plot of "A Modern Comedy" is to continue telling the story of life after Soames and Irene in 1881.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Double 9 Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789356569942
• Artikelnr.: 67601699

Autorenporträt

John Galsworthy OM 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.