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Jon and his mother go to Spain. The son manages to curtail the visit after six weeks.Meanwhile, Jolyon strengthens his relationship with his eldest daughter, June, who reveals that she sympathises with the young lovers. It is June who helps Fleur in her search for the history of the feud within the family. Prosper Profond, who continues to ingratiate himself with the Forsyte clan, inadvertently discloses the truth.

“So many people have written and claimed that their families were the original of the Forsytes,” wrote Galsworthy, “that one has almost been encouraged to believe in the typicality of an imagine species.” It is the Spring of 1920, 34 years on from the beginning of the Saga. “Young Jolyon” is married to Irene after her divorce from Soames, and they now have a son, Jon. Soames has re-married and has a daughter, Fleur. A new generation of Forsytes comes of age and the Saga continues.

Roman Dzhona Golsuorsi "Belaya obez'yana", vhodyashchiy v ego znamenituyu "Sagu o Forsaytah", risuet masshtabnuyu i krasochnuyu kartinu zhizni vtorogo pokoleniya Forsaytov, osvobodivshihsya ot bremeni predstavleniy i predrassudkov starshih predstaviteley roda i bezdumno otdavshihsya vihryu naslazhdeniy "novoy ehpohi".

This is the final book of "The Forsyte Saga". The interlude "Awakening" introduces us to young Jon's discoveries and his love for his mother Irene. To Let tells of Soames' daughter Fleur's and Jon's love for each other - a love which is subjected to the stigma of their parents' divorce.

Fifty unusual and enchanting short stories.

We've all met true craftsmen; individuals who can do nothing less than their best. Individuals who can't fathom the idea of planned obsolescence. They understand every part of their craft and customize every feature to create a one-of-a-kind result that lasts. This is the essence of this story. No great plot, no superior twist, just a well-crafted story that invites each of us into the heart of a master craftsmen and the passion that drives perfection. A beautiful story narrated by Glenn Hascall.

As Jolyons condition worsens he writes a letter to Jon explaining the history of the feud, intending to use it only as a last resort. The boy eventually reads his father’s ‘confession’ and Jolyon is brought down by the stress. The young Mont continues to pay court to Fleur. Soames, hedging his bets, researches the boy’s background and finds that an alliance with the nobility might have its attractions.

The respectable philanthropist Charles Granter is approached by a disreputable type on the Embankment in London, who attempts to blackmail him. Granter has just paid a visit to a pretty flower girl, a single mother in straightened circumstances, and the blackmailer wants 10 pounds in return for not telling Granter's wife. Granter is unsure how to deal with the situation. He refuses to give in to the blackmailer's demands...but how will his wife respond to the situation?

In this play by the author of The Forsyte Saga, a theft at a house party causes turmoil, resulting in an exposure of prejudices and a straining of loyalties.

A wonderful collection of great classic love stories for the incurable romantic in all of us. "The Scrupulous Father" by George Gissing, "The Marquise" by George Sand, "Her Lover" by Maxim Gorky, "A Long-Ago Affair" by John Galsworthy, "A Dill Pickle" by Katherine Mansfield, "Portrait of a Lady" by Jerome K. Jerome, "The Pig and Whistle" by George Gissing, "A Race for a Bride" by H. K. Hales, "The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Girl Who Was Tired of Love" by Leonard Merrick...

Classic Love Stories 2 read by Joanna David & Edward Fox. Wonderful readings of stories centred around the theme of love, including works by classic writers like Rudyard Kipling and John Galsworthy.

John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933) was an English playwright and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. 'Quality' is a poignant tale of a master boot maker whose quest for perfection leads to his own tragic downfall.

An abridged version of John Galsworthy's play Justice, starring Nigel Bruce. Galsworthy made use of the theatre in Justice to lend his support to reform of the penal system.

The golden age of the short story was in Victorian and Edwardian times, when authors made a living by contributing to literary magazines and journals. These popular journals threw up such literary greats as Dickens, Conan Doyle, Rider Haggard, and Jerome K. Jerome. Many of the great writers are undeservedly neglected by modern audience...but what a pleasure it is to rediscover the literary treasures that delighted our great grandparents!

"Serebryanaya lozhka" yavlyaetsya vtorym tomom "Sovremennoy komedii", vhodyashchiy v obshchiy cikl "Sagi o Forsaytah". V 1924 godu vse uzhe s dostatochnoy otchetlivost'yu soznavali, chto Britaniya sil'no izmenilas'. Ona stala sovsem ne ta, dovoennaya, dobraya staraya Angliya. Proizoshlo nechto neobratimoe v social'nom povedenii mass, v nravstvennom uklade vsey strany. Maykl Mont stal chlenom parlamenta i probuet provesti v zhizn' idei foggartizma.

Soames travels to Paris to make one last attempt to regain Irene and the detective agency think they have found the man involved in the affair.Irene returns to London to seek Jolyon’s help and the two become closer while Soames takes out some insurance with Annette’s mother.The spurned husband confronts the lovers at Robin Hill in a meeting which verges on violence and as devastating news comes from the Front more young Forsytes prepare to serve their country.

Timothy, at just over 100 years of age, is the last survivor of the 10 siblings of Superior Dosset Forsyte. In this latest volume we are introduced to the grandchildren of those Forsytes who first began the Saga. Soames’s daughter Fleur is 20 at the start of the 1920s, a bright, wilful and independent spirit who can twist her father around her little finger. There is also Jon, the offspring of Jolyon and Irene, a sensitive and intelligent, though slightly naïve, young man of the same age.

Roman angliyskogo pisatelya Dzhona Golsuorsi "V petle" (1920), vtoroy iz ego znamenitoy trilogii "Saga o Forsaytah", opisyvaet tot period zhizni Somsa Forsayta, kogda on pytaetsya naladit' svoi zaputannye semeynye otnosheniya, vysvobodit'sya iz petli, voznikshey v rezul'tate ego razryva s Irehn, ego pervoy zhenoy, i sozdat' novuyu sem'yu.

V centre romana angliyskogo pisatelya Dzhona Golsuorsi "Sdayotsya vnayom" (1921), zavershayushchego ego znamenituyu trilogiyu "Saga o Forsaytah", - istoriya otnosheniy dvuh yunyh predstaviteley vrazhduyushchih vetvey roda Forsaytov, Fler i Dzhona. Chto okazhetsya sil'nee, nenavist' ili lyubov' - ehtot vopros derzhit chitatelya v napryazhenii na protyazhenii vsego romana.

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English playwright and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. 'A Strange Thing' is the story of a beautiful country wedding and the poignant backstory behind it.