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by John Galsworthy
| Paperback in Very Good condition. Light wear. Small crease across bottom right corner front cover, faint reading crease down spine. Pages yellowing.
First published 1933.
Published in Penguin Books 1968.
272 pages.
11.1cm x 18.2cm x 1.5cm
Weight: 175gms.
Cover price: 5/-.
The cover shows Robin Phillips as Wilfrid Desert in a scene from the B.B.C.TV production 'The Forsyte Saga' produced by Donald Wilson, 1967.
Cover photograph by: Douglas Playle.
'Over the River' is Book Three of 'End of the Chapter', which comprises the last three volumes of 'The Forsyte Chronicles (nine volumes).
John Galsworthy - Born: 14th August 1867, Kingston Upon Thames - Died: 31st January 1933, (65), Hampstead - British.
In the last three volumes of the Forsyte Chronicles Galsworthy is concerned more with the Cherrells than with the Forsytes to whom they are related by marriage. Since 1217, Cherrell sons have left Condaford Grange to serve the State as soldiers, clergymen and administrators. But the 1930s find them uneasy in a world of changing values, unemployment and depression. In the 'End of the Chapter' trilogy, Galsworthy shows with irony, sympathy and great narrative skill how the Cherrells come to terms with a century driven by hand-to-mouth opportunism, setting little store by service.
After seventeen months of marriage, Clare Cherrell leaves her husband, Sir Gerald Corven, a careerist in the Colonial Service, revolted by his sadistic practices. Corven, anxious to avoid a scandal, pleads for her return with promises of future self-restraint. Then Clare's friendship with young Tony Croom presents Corven with an altogether more effective lever of persuasion ...
The Forsyte Chronicles.
1. The Salvation of a Forsyte (The Salvation of Swithin Forsyte) (1900).
2. On Forsyte 'Change (1930) (re-published 1986 as 'Uncollected Forsyte').
3. Danaë (1905–06) in Forsytes, Pendyces, and Others (1935).
4. The Man of Property (1906) – first book of The Forsyte Saga (1922).
5. 'Indian Summer of a Forsyte' (1918) – first interlude of The Forsyte Saga in Five Tales (1918).
6. In Chancery (1920) – second book of The Forsyte Saga.
7. Awakening (1920) – second interlude of The Forsyte Saga.
8. To Let (1921) – third book of The Forsyte Saga.
9. The White Monkey (1924) – first book of A Modern Comedy (1929).
10. The Silver Spoon (1926) – second book of A Modern Comedy.
11. 'A Silent Wooing' (1927) – first Interlude of A Modern Comedy.
12. 'Passers-By' (1927) – second Interlude of A Modern Comedy.
13. Swan Song (1928) – third book of A Modern Comedy.
14. Four Forsyte Stories (1929) – 'A Sad Affair', 'Dog at Timothy's', 'The Hondekoeter' and 'Midsummer Madness'.
15. Maid in Waiting (1931) – first book of End of the Chapter (1934).
16. Flowering Wilderness (1932) – second book of End of the Chapter.
17. One More River (originally Over the River) (1933) – third book of End of the Chapter.
List from Wikipedia.
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Publisher: Penguin
ISBN:
Condition: Very Good |
Issue No.: 2787
1968
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