(1912) Persons of The Play: SIR WILLIAM CHESHIRE, a baronet LADY CHESHIRE, his wife BILL, their eldest son HAROLD, their second son RONALD KEITH(in the Lancers), their son-in-law CHRISTINE (his wife), their eldest daughter DOT, their second daughter JOAN, their third daughter MABEL LANFARNE, their guest THE REVEREND JOHN LATTER, engaged to Joan OLD STUDDENHAM, the head-keeper FREDA STUDDENHAM, the lady's-maid YOUNG DUNNING, the under-keeper ROSE TAYLOR, a village girl JACKSON, the butler CHARLES, a footman Setting: Time: The present. The action passes on December 7 and 8 at the Cheshires' country house, in one of the shires. ACT I: SCENE I: The hall; before dinner. SCENE II: The hall; after dinner. ACT II: Lady Cheshire's morning room; after breakfast. ACT III: The smoking-room; tea-time. A night elapses between Acts I. and II.
(1914) PERSONS OF THE PLAY: STEPHEN MORE, Member of Parliament KATHERINE, his wife OLIVE, their little daughter THE DEAN OF STOUR, Katherine's uncle GENERAL SIR JOHN JULIAN, her father CAPTAIN HUBERT JULIAN, her brother HELEN, his wife EDWARD MENDIP, editor of "The Parthenon" ALAN STEEL, More's secretary JAMES HOME, architect CHARLES SHELDER, Solicitor, A deputation of More's MARK WACE, bookseller, constituents WILLIAM BANNING, manufacturer, NURSE WREFORD WREFORD (her son), Hubert's orderly HIS SWEETHEART THE FOOTMAN HENRY A DOORKEEPER SOME BLACK-COATED GENTLEMEN A STUDENT A GIRL ACT I. The dining-room of More's town house, evening. ACT II. The same, morning. ACT III. SCENE I. An alley at the back of a suburban theatre. SCENE II. Katherine's bedroom. ACT IV. The dining-room of More's house, late afternoon. AFTERMATH. The corner of a square, at dawn. Between ACTS I and II some days elapse. Between ACTS II and III three months. Between ACT III SCENE I and ACT III SCENE II no time. Between ACTS III and IV a few hours. Between ACTS IV and AFTERMATH an indefinite period.
Secondo volume della celebre Saga dei Forsyte. Il vecchio Joylon, l’ultimo grande patriarca della famiglia, si riavvicina lentamente a Irene. Soames, deluso e amareggiato, non dimentica invece quella che un tempo è stata (ed è ancora) sua moglie. Dopo l’ennesimo rifiuto della donna, sarà un tribunale a decretare il loro futuro. In un contesto sociale che cambia e che modifica radicalmente i rapporti fra le persone, si profila all’orizzonte una nuova generazione di Forsyte, in apparenza meno conformista e meno attratta dai grandi guadagni e dalle speculazioni commerciali. In tribunale è proposto in edizione integrale annotata.
Londra 1886. La ricca famiglia dei Forsyte si riunisce per festeggiare il fidanzamento della giovane June con un architetto, Philip Bosinney, di pochi mezzi ma molte ambizioni.Il fidanzamento sarà la scintilla che porterà il clan dei Forsyte, spietato contro l'esterno e apparentemente unito al proprio interno, a fare i conti con le proprie divisioni e con l'età vittoriana al tramonto.
Sono passati quasi due anni dalla drammatica ne del rapporto con Wilfrid Desert, e la vita di Dinny è ancora sconvolta al ricordo dell’amante partito per sempre.A distoglierla dalle sue preoccupazioni è il ritorno della sorella Clare, che ha abbandonato il tetto coniugale per i maltrattamenti subiti dal marito.Il destino delle due sorelle – così diverse eppure così unite – si compirà insieme, portando a conclusione la loro vicenda e l’intera saga dei Forsyte.Terminato appena prima di morire e pubblicato postumo, Oltre il fiume è il testamento letterario di John Galsworthy e un epilogo di straordinario lirismo per la sua saga più famosa.
Nel 1930, dopo aver messo fine alle prime due trilogie della Saga dei Forsyte, John Galsworthy scrisse una serie di racconti incentrati su alcuni dei protagonisti della famiglia Forsyte, ammettendo che era "difficile separarsi da coloro con cui aveva vissuto per così tanto tempo".Da questa singolare nostalgia nascono questi diciannove racconti, ambientati tra il 1821 e il 1918 pervasi di humor inglese e di curiosità per gli appartenenti a una famiglia unica, e da cui emerge un secolo di storia britannica e non solo.
Londra: la Prima Guerra Mondiale è terminata da poco e la borghesia inglese affronta i cambiamenti. Tra loro i Forsyte: i più anziani – come Soames – cercano di mantenere l’antico prestigio; i più giovani cercano invece una via diversa.Tra questi ultimi ci sono Jon, figlio di Jolyon e Irene, e Fleur, figlia di Soames. Tra i due giovani, quasi coetanei che per vent’anni hanno ignorato l’esistenza l’uno dell’altra, nasce inevitabilmente l’amore. Ma il loro amore fa sì che inevitabilmente vengano alla luce i segreti risalenti a molti anni prima, quando Irene era la moglie di Soames. Contiene l’interludio “Risveglio”.
Londra, 1932. La vita tranquilla di Dinny Cherrell è sconvolta dal ritorno in Inghilterra di Wilfrid Desert, il poeta che anni prima era fuggito in Oriente per amore di Fleur Forsyte.Tra loro è amore a prima vista, ma il loro rapporto diventa ben presto tormentato e osteggiato dalle famiglie e dalla “buona società” quando si scopre che Wilfrid si è convertito all’Islam per salvarsi la vita. Non contento, dà alle stampe un poemetto in cui spiega la sua decisione, suscitando scandalo e diventando per tutti un vile da emarginare.Dinny si accorgerà ben presto di quanto sono forti e dure a morire le tradizioni patriottiche e religiose, che Galsworthy riesce a mettere in scena con la consueta maestria nel penultimo capitolo della Saga dei Forsyte.
Londra, 1930. La “fanciulla” del titolo è Dinny Charwell, cugina acquisita di Fleur Forsyte. L’accusa di omicidio e la minaccia di estradizione che pendono sulla testa di suo fratello Hubert spingono la giovane – di natura riservata sebbene molto caustica – a introdursi negli ambienti della società londinese per salvarlo.Mentre Hubert troverà l’amore della bella Jean, Dinny dovrà affrontare aule di tribunali e ambienti ministeriali, anche se il maggior pericolo arriverà dal trovarsi contesa tra il marinaio Alan e l’esploratore americano Hallorsen.In una nuova traduzione, il primo volume della trilogia finale della Saga dei Forsyte.
Duke,a Casanova and the son of a rich business man and a baron returned home after his father was shot,he took over the business where he met Jenny a former waitress who had decided to go get a job after she was pushed by friends for been too beautiful waisting her time in a café.Duke and Jenny's first encounter at the Café wasn't really nice,he had decided to punish her for it while Jenny detested him.Jenny happened to be the new assistant that was hired for Duke, their paths met. Duke saw it as an avenue to make her life difficult while Jenny resolved to endure it as the pay was too good and it enabled her take really good care of her grandpa.Jenny had an admirer,Scott,a police detective,whose father was in on Duke's father before he was killed and now Scott his son was trying to bring Duke's father down before he was shot.It was a revenge mission masked in duty. At the long run Duke finally fell in love with Jenny whom was close to Scott and was determined to take win her from Scott.Scott on the other hand wasn't just propelled by just his duty to bring Duke down but also by his love for Jenny and hatred and jealousy towards Duke for trying to take Jenny away from him. It was quite tough for Jenny who found out she was falling for Duke and all she shared with Scott was platonic.She had to make a choice between choosing her boss whom she first dimmed as arrogant and whom she knows to be a Casanova and Scott who has been really nice to her and her grandpa but all she shared towards him was just platonic. Duke was willing to change but it was going to be difficult loving just one woman and leaving the rest and that was what he was going to do.Anything to proof to Jenny he's not as bad as she thought of him to be and to show her he really loved her and is a changed person. Scott still resolved to win Jenny and still take Duke down.
From the editor: Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #10. Carlton Clarke, the famed Chicago telepathic detective, returns to our pages with “The Broken Marconigram.” First published in 1915, this tale takes Clarke and Sexton, his “Watson,” to New Orleans in search of a friend who’s been kidnapped by a Satanic cult. These chronicles of the first “telepathic detective” originally appeared in newspaper syndication across the United States in 1908, and I continue to be impressed by them. There is much here for Sherlock Holmes fans to appreciate. Our roving mystery editor, Barb Goffman, has tracked down by gem by David Dean, “The Duelist.” Plus Hal Charles—the byline of writing team Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet—contributes another solve-it-yourself mystery. Prolific pulp author Dale Clark—whose copyrights I purchased some years ago—makes his Weekly debut with a terrific World War II-era tale about an undercover F.B.I agent. I don’t think it’s ever been reprinted. And science fiction writer Murray Leinster (real name Will Jenkins) contributes one of his rare mysteries, “One Corpse, Guaranteed!” They don’t make titles like that any more! This issue’s mystery novel is a Bull-Dog Drummond tale by “Sapper.” See my introduction for more info on this series and author. And that’s just the mysteries! For science fiction fans, we have “The Dangerous Scarecrow,” by Carl Jacobi—he was a member of the Lovecraft Circle, whose talents extended far beyond weird fantasy into science fiction. Plus I’ve snuck in another of my own tales, “Tap Dancing,” a gentle ghost story. I never truly understood it when other writers said some stories were “gifts” that just came to them—until this story came to me. George Scithers placed it in the 300th issue of Weird Tales. It was the best thing I had written at that point in my career, and I wrote it almost word for word in its final form in one sitting. Truly it was a gift. We have not one, but two science fiction novels—Eando Binder’s 1971 classic, The Secret of the Red Spot, and Stephen Marlowe’s Revolt of the Outworlders. Good stuff. Here’s the complete lineup: Mysteries “One Corpse, Guaranteed!” by Murray Leinster [short story]“Thieves’ Blueprint,” by Dale Clark [short story]“Only Time Will Tell,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself short-short]“The Duelist,” by David Dean [Barb Goffman Presents short story]Bull-Dog Drummond’s Third Round, by Sapper [novel, Bulldog Drummond series]“The Broken Marconigram,” by Frank Lovell Nelson [short story, Carlton Clarke #9] Science Fiction & Fantasy“Tap Dancing,” by John Gregory Betancourt[short story]“The Dangerous Scarecrow,” by Carl Jacobi [short story]Revolt of the Outworlds, by Stephen Marlowe [novel]The Secret of the Red Spot, by Eando Binder [novel]
Nova Jackson is a beautiful , stunning and smart civil engineer from England. His life is going nowhere until he meets Francis Walton, a hot, smart man with a rich company owner with a passion for playing basketball. Nova takes an instant disliking to Francis and the spiteful and violent ways she learnt during her years in Europe. However, when a dog tries to bite Francis, Nova springs to the rescue. Francis begins to notices that Nova is actually rather loving at heart. But, the pressures of Francis's job as a architect engineer leave her blind to Nova's affections and Nova takes up boxing to try an distract herself. Finally, when malicious lawyer, Winston Peterson, threatens to come between them, Nova has to act fast. But will they ever find the tender love that they deserve?
(1922) A series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize-winning English author John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of a large commercial upper middle-class English family, similar to Galsworthy's own. Only a few generations removed from their farmer ancestors, the family members are keenly aware of their status as "new money". The main character, Soames Forsyte, sees himself as a "man of property" by virtue of his ability to accumulate material possessions*** this does not succeed in bringing him pleasure. Separate sections of the saga, as well as the lengthy story in its entirety, have been adapted for cinema and television. The first book, The Man of Property (1906), was adapted in 1949 by Hollywood as "That Forsyte Woman", starring Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon and Robert Young. The BBC produced a popular 26-part serial in 1967, that also dramatised a subsequent trilogy concerning the Forsytes, A Modern Comedy. In 2002, Granada Television produced two series for the ITV network called The Forsyte Saga and The Forsyte Saga: To Let, and the two Granada series made their runs in the US as part of Masterpiece Theatre. In 2003, The Forsyte Saga was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel". This novel is not one book, but six. "The Man of Property" begins in 1886, at the engagement party of young June Forsyte and a Bohemian architect, Philip Bosinney. Almost all the Forsytes (whom Galsworthy describes as a "species" of wealthy Englishman) are present. There are the mid-Victorian "old Forsytes", the "younger Forsytes" who are Late-Victorian, who have inherited incomes and property. The predominant character, Soames Forsyte, is unhappily married to an enigmatic, beautiful woman, Irene, whose friendship with Bosinney, along with Soames' possessiveness, becomes a tragic love affair. It begins a family feud throughout the Saga, ravaging the lives of many, including the next generation. This is much more than a love story, but a brilliant study of Victorian, Edwardian and post-war manners. Soames is the most constant character and one either loves or hates him for his beliefs and actions. This is also true of Irene, whose character is still being debated today.--Submitted by Gwynhwyfar
A Tragi-Comedy. (1920) "Who touches pitch shall be defiled" This play by Galsworthy deals with the class system and many social issues. Another of his plays in the same theme is Strife (1909). This story is about the interaction between two very different families in rural England just after the end of the First World War. Squire Hillcrist lives in the manor house where his family has lived for generations. He lives there with his daughter, Jill, who is in her late teens, and his wife Amy, as well as servants and retainers. He is of "old money", although his finances are at a bit of low ebb. The other family is the "nouveau riche" Hornblowers, headed by the single-minded and rich industrialist Hornblower who throws old retainers the Jackmans out of their home (much to the Squire's disgust), and who plans to surround the Hillcrist's rural estate with factories. CHARACTERS: HILLCRIST, A Country Gentleman AMY, His Wife JILL, His Daughter DAWKER, His Agent HORNBLOWER, A Man Newly-Rich CHARLES, His Elder Son CHLOE, Wife to Charles ROLF, His Younger Son FELLOWS, Hillcrist's Butler ANNA, Chloe's Maid THE JACKMANS, Man and Wife AN AUCTIONEER A SOLICITOR TWO STRANGERS ACT I: HILLCRIST'S Study ACT II: SCENE I. A month later. An Auction Room. SCENE II. The same evening. CHLOE'S Boudoir. ACT III: SCENE I. The following day. HILLCRIST'S Study. Morning. SCENE II. The Same. Evening.
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