Flowering Wilderness [Paperback]

John Galsworthy (Author)

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John Galsworthy (1867-1933), English novelist and playwright, who was one of the most popular English novelists and dramatists of the early 20th century. He was born in Kingston Hills, Surrey, and educated at Harrow School and the University of Oxford. He was admitted to the bar in 1890 but soon abandoned law for writing. Galsworthy wrote his early works under the pen name John Sinjohn. His fiction is concerned principally with English upper middle-class life; his dramas frequently find their themes in this stratum of society, but also often deal, sympathetically, with the economically and socially oppressed and with questions of social justice. Most of his novels deal with the history, from Victorian times through the first quarter of the 20th century, of an upper middle-class English family, the Forsytes. The principal member of the family is Soames Forsyte, who exemplifies the drive of his class for the accumulation of material wealth, a drive that often conflicts with human values. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

About the Author

John Galsworthy was known in his day as a playwright, but he is now best remembered for The Forsyte Saga, a series of three novels and two interludes that explore the social dynamics of the nouveau riche. Galsworthy campaigned for various social causes in his writing, including prison reform, censorship issues, womens rights, and the rights of animals. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Scribner
• ISBN-10: 068471776X
• ISBN-13: 978-0684717760
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,631,440 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars The decline of the Forsytes, December 4, 2009

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Clifford Story (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Saga: End of the Chapter) (Hardcover)

Here's my take (with a small spoiler) on the Forsytes, after finishing "The Flowering Wilderness", the eighth in the series: The first six books are excellent and well worth reading but the next two, with the central character of the first six absent, seem to lack purpose. They're well-written and enjoyable but I don't see the point. This is particularly true of "The Flowering Wilderness", which (to the modern reader) is full of extreme reactions to a minor incident.