An old English family, the Cherrells' constant in an age of change and uncertainty is their ancestral home, Condaford Grange. It is especially precious to young Elizabeth Cherrell, or "Dinny," whose family is everything to her. And when her brother faces extradition to South America, falsely accused of murder, and her cousin is threatened by her mentally unstable husband, Dinny does everything she can to shield them from harm.
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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.
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John Galsworthy (1867–1933) was a celebrated writer and dramatist, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.
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handy sized edition,
By A very entertaining look at British society of the 1920s, with both romance and danger.
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meet john galsworthy,
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JOHN GALSWORTHY WRITES LIKE SHAKESPEAR BUT WITH A TIME GAP THAT MAKES HIM UNDERSTANDABLE AND READABLE. HIS LOVE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND HIS UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN NATURE ARE WHAT MAKES HIM THE 19TH, 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES OUTSTANDING AUTHOR. WHILE HE WRITES ABOUT ENGLAND IT COULD BE AMERICA BECAUSE HIS STORIES ARE OF HUMAN NATURE AT IT'S HONEST BEST AND WORST. I RECOMMEND THE "FORSYTE SAGA" FOR WHICH HE WON THE NOBLE PRIZE. HE IS PROBABLY THE FINEST WRITER IN THE LAST 200 YEARS.
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The escapades continue.,
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Dinny falls in love with a poet who might not be quite heterosexual. Dinny offers herself to him to, sort of, seal the deal and he responds, "Not now."Of course the Charwells are upset because the poet, who had abandoned Christianity even more than them, converted to the Muslim religion with a gun at his head. They feel, with this action, the poet betrayed the entire British Foreign Service. Sir Mont's cousin is so upset that he has a knock down drag out with the poet. The cousin is 53 years old and supposedly had intentions towards Dinny. The poet is 38. Galsworthy considers both to be `young men'. I believe the cousin is jealous of the poet because the poet had come up with a great cover for his closet life. It reads like two queens bashing it out. We saw this in a Waymon Brothers skit on "In Living Color" so we know queens can be vicious. Aunt Em has started embroidering. She, rapidly, is becoming the most interesting character in the series. In the final chapter the General informs Dinny that the family is broke. Being ever so perfect she pops the dad with her money she obtained from hocking her jewelry and horse racing bets.
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