Tag Archives: John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy, “The Forsyte Saga, Vol. 2”

Posted on March 30, 2013 by carolwallace

Soames is dead! Oh, dear, oh, dear. I didn’t see that coming. Nor did I anticipate the sense of regret I feel. John Galsworthy created Soames as the embodiment of Victorian bourgeois values. He was going to die sometime. What … Continue reading →

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John Galsworthy, “The Forsyte Saga”

Posted on December 15, 2012 by carolwallace

“But wait!” I can hear you protesting. “The Forsyte Saga is the name of that TV miniseries. John Galsworthy wrote individual novels, didn’t he? Surely you read individual books?” I did: they were The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To … Continue reading →

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John Galsworthy, “The Man of Property”

Posted on August 30, 2012 by carolwallace

I spent almost as much time with The Man of Property as I did with Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants, which is three times as long, and the reading experience was strangely inverse in nature. Follett’s book spans over 20 years … Continue reading →

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Somerset Maugham, “The Razor’s Edge”

Posted on April 22, 2010 by carolwallace

Baffling. This is one of those books that was on people’s shelves when I grew up. Grandmothers had Maugham’s novels, along with Galsworthy’s: he must have done very well with the Book of the Month Club. I had never read … Continue reading →

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