Swan song / by John Galsworthy
1928, New Impression. London: W. Heinemann Ltd. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Previous owner's inscription. Item #361022
Physical description: 5 preliminary leaves, 347 pages; 23 cm. Contents:
Initiation of the canteen -- On the 'phone -- Home coming -- Soames goes up to town -- Jeopardy -- Snuffbox -- Michael has qualms -- Secret -- Rencounter -- After lunch -- Perambulation -- Private feelings -- Soames in waiting -- Son of Sleeping Dove -- Soames goes racing -- Two-year-olds -- In the Meads -- Measles -- Forming a committee -- Two visits -- The jolly accident -- But -- Jon! -- That thing and this thing -- Converting the slums -- Delicious night -- Always! -- Soames gives advice -- Occupying the mind -- Possessing the soul -- Talk in a car -- More talk in a car -- Soames has brain waves -- To-morrow -- Forbidden fruit -- Aftermath -- Bitter apple -- "Great Forsyte" -- Driving on -- Fires -- Hush -- Soames takes the ferry -- Full close. Summary: Michael Mont is succeeding in his public life in Parliament, but holds grave doubts about his private life and his wife, Fleur. Fleur's original love, Jon Forsyte, her cousin and the son of her father's ex-wife, returns to England where a meeting is inevitable. Fleur's undying love for Jon is disclosed. Other members of the Forsyte family are included in this imminently readable saga. Subjects: Fiction. 20th century fiction. Galsworthy, John.
Price: €14.95