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Название книги: On Forsyte ‘Change
Автор(ы): John Galsworthy
Жанр: Классическая проза
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Foreword to “On Forsyte ‘Change”
Before a long suffering public and still more long suffering critics, I lay this volume of apocryphal Forsyte tales, pleading the two excuses: That it is hard to part suddenly and finally from those with whom one has lived so long; and, that these footnotes do really, I think, help to fill in and round out the chronicles of the Forsyte family.They have all been written since ‘Swan Song’ was finished, but in place they come between the Saga and the Comedy, for without the Saga they would not be understood, and they are over before the Comedy begins. In the hope of forgiveness I send them forth.John Galsworthy.
THE BUCKLES OF SUPERIOR DOSSET, 1821–1863
In the year 1821 ‘Superior Dosset’ Forsyte came to Town—if not precisely on a milk-white pony. According to the testimony of Aunt Ann, noted for precision, to young Jolyon on holiday from Eton, the migration from Bosport was in fact tribal and effected in two post-shays and the Highflyer coach.“It was after our de
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