Fraternity

ISBN: 9781775450184 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 177545018X (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource (497 p.)
Publisher: [Auckland] : Floating Press, c2010.

Galsworthy, John 1867-1933 (Author).

Summary: Annotation Famed English playwright and novelist John Galworthy, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, first gained critical and popular acclaim for a series of novels and short stories called The Forsyte Saga, which followed multiple generations of a nouveau riche family of aristocrats. Fraternity focuses on the intricate dynamics of family relationships and romantic entanglements, rendered in Galsworthy's inimitably nuanced style. Joseph Conrad, himself considered a master of prose, described the experience of reading the book as a kind of pilgrimage, "a long and breathless ascent on a commanding summit in view of the promised land."