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Title: Maid in Waiting by John Galsworthy ISBN: 1-58963-240-0 Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL) Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Galsworthy on auto-pilot
Comment: This is the seventh book in the Forsythe chronicles, and switches the scene to the Forsythes' cousins, the Charwells. The book seems very dated now, and is not of the same class as the three novels which make up the "Modern Comedy" trilogy. Nonetheless, Galsworthy's clear, direct almost news reporter-like style makes it an easy read. There's the usual story of the family's fight to avoid a scandal (reminiscent of the scandal Soames was concerned with throughout "A Modern Comedy"). What is of interest here is the role played by the females, who resort to using influence on the males who occupy all the positions of power, and the family's defence that it was unthinkable that an English gentlemen could be guilty of an offence, whereas the government is merely concerned with maintaining its relations with a foreign power. The resolution of this problem is swift and unsatisfactory given the importance of it to the plot of the novel as a whole, but it does reflect the (continuing?) effect of class networks and the use of influence/lobbying on governments. There are also interesting sub-plots concerning insanity (to which Galsworthy adopts a sympathetic stance) and to Social Darwinism, which Galsworthy rejects powerfully.
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Title: The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy ISBN: 1589635817 Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL) Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Swan Song by John Galsworthy ISBN: 1589634195 Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL) Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The White Monkey by John Galsworthy ISBN: 9997512723 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: June, 1924 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Forsyte Saga (Oxford World's Classics) by John Galsworthy, Geoffrey Harvey ISBN: 0192838628 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Indian Summer of a Forsyte (The Forsyte Saga, Volume 2) by John Galsworthy ISBN: 1404309330 Publisher: Indypublish.Com Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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