Forsytes, Pendyces and Others

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. No jacket. Very good. 1935 Hard Cover. viii, 287 pp. "He is now far better known for his novels, particularly The Forsyte Saga, his trilogy about the eponymous family and connected lives. These books, as with many of his other works, deal with social class, and upper-middle class lives in particular. Although sympathetic to his characters, he highlights their insular, snobbish, and acquisitive attitudes and their suffocating moral codes. He is viewed as one of the first writers of the Edwardian era who challenged some of the ideals of society depicted in the preceding literature of Victorian England. The depiction of a woman in an unhappy marriage furnishes another recurring theme in his work. The character of Irene in The Forsyte Saga is drawn from Ada Pearson, though her previous marriage was not as miserable as that of the character." "John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 (Inventory #: 2204043)