The Patrician

The Patrician

• Two of British author John Galsworthy’s best-selling novels are bound together in this Kindle edition: The Patrician and The Country House<br /><br />The Patrician<br />The patrician is all intellect, and has a younger, more emotional sister, Both are infatuated with unsuitable people, torn between their heart and their duty. Galsworthy writes eloquently and with great insight about the English upper classes and their constraints – some of them self-imposed -- at the turn of the 19th century. He thoughtfully analyses motivations, emotions and duties.<br /><br />The Country House<br />Although not part of The Forsyte Saga, The Country House shares the subject matter of Man of Property. It is about divorce, its legal ramifications, and its impact on those closely involved, and their families. The country house is inhabited by Mr Horace Pendyce, wife Margery and their two children. The eldest son, George, is in London under the spell of Mrs Jasper Bellew, a woman of great beauty with an alcoholic husband. <br /><br />About The Author<br />John Galsworthy (/1867 –1933) was a Novel Prize-winning English novelist and playwright whose best known works include The Forsyte Saga (1906–1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. Galsworthy was born in Surrey, England to a wealthy and well established, family with a large estate in Kingston upon Thames. He attended Harrow and Oxford, and trained as a barrister. During his travels he met Joseph Conrad, then the first mate of a sailing-ship moored in the harbour of Adelaide, Australia, and the two future novelists became close friends. Galsworthy published his first work in 1897 under the name John Sinjohn. It was a collection of short stories named "From the Four Winds".His first play "The Silver Box" (1906) became a success, and he followed it up with The Man of Property (1906), the first in the Forsyte trilogy.