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Flowering Wilderness: The Forsyte Chronicles (Book 8)

Author : John Galsworthy

Performed By : David Case

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 8 hours

Categories : Classic Literature

Our Price : $39.95 $16.95

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"A social satire of epic proportions and one that does not suffer by comparison with
Thackeray's Vanity Fair...the whole comedy of manners, convincing both in its fidelity to life
and as a work of art."New York Times on the Forsyte Chronicles

John Galsworthy's epic Forsyte Chronicles, a nine-volume series of novels dramatizing the fictional
but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians, the Forsytes, has become established as
one of the most popular and enduring works of twentieth century literature. He made their lives and
times, loves and losses so real that readers accused him of including real individuals whom they
knew as the characters in his drama.

Flowering Wilderness is the middle novel in the third trilogy of the series, called End of the
Chapter, which concerns the cousins of the younger Forsytes, the Cherrells. A story of individual
emotional struggle within the impositions of society, the plot concerns the unconventional Wilfrid
Desert, a Great War veteran and poet who renounced Christianity for Islam at pistol point, and his
adoring fiance, Dinny Cherrell, who was prepared to defy her world's moral code for him.

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Howards End

Author : E. M. Forster

Performed By : Nadia May

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 11 hours

Categories : Classic Literature

Our Price : $23.95

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"Howards End is undoubtedly Forster's masterpiece; it develops to their full the themes
and attitudes of [his] early books and throws back upon them a new and enhancing light."--Lionel Trilling

A vibrant portrait of Edwardian England, Howards End examines personal relationships and conflicting
values. The Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and their brother Tibby, place their values in civilized living,
music, literature, and conversation with their friends. The Wilcoxes, Henry and his children Charles, Paul, and
Evie, are concerned with the business side of life and distrust emotions and imagination.

Howards End, a charming country house in Hertfordshire which belonged to Henry Wilcox's first wife, becomes the
object of an inheritance dispute between the Wilcox family and Schlegel sisters. Through romantic entanglements,
disappearing wills, and sudden tragedy, the conflict over the house emerges as a symbolic struggle for England's
very future.