John Galsworthy: Forsytes, Pendyces and Others

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John Galsworthy : Forsytes, Pendyces and Others

William Heinemann, 1935

1935 Hardback BOOK in very good green cloth covers, slightly bumped to corners. PAGES slightly tanned to edges, but clean, flat & tightly bound. DUSTJACKET very bumped & worn to corners & edges nibbled to spine ends, with well used appearance. Book Extract; the material included in this volume, very variedand somewhat uneasy of classification, has beenselected with much care and more trepidation; it is,however, presented with a certain confidence, andin the belief that it will be found of interest, thoughnot perhaps entirely for the usual reasons.None of it has hitherto been published (otherwisethan serially) except for the one short story: 'TheDoldrums.' Of that, more anon.Danae, the first item, formed originally theopening of the novel that is now known as TheCountry House. In it we meet many who, later on,become our intimate acquaintances: Here areForsytes-old Jolyon, young Jolyon, James, George;here are Mr. Horace Pendyce and Gregory Vigilfrom The Country House; Danae (later Helen) Bellew,who, we realise, has more affinity with RosamundLarne of The Stoic and Old English; Jaspar Bellew,her husband, a slight sketch but remarkably vivid;their two children; Anthony Thornworthy (Danae'sfather), a blend of Anthony in Strife and of SylvanusHeythorp in The Stoic and Old English; Hemmings,Secretary of Companies; a faint foreshadowing of..., 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall, Very Good

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