"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.
Written By : Homer
Narrator : Anton Lesser
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Length : 4 hours
Type : Poetry
Classic Literature
Price : $15.49
The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days towards the end of the Trojan war. More... |
Written By : William Shakespeare
Narrator : Full Cast Production
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 2 hours 20 minutes
Type : Dramatizations
Classic Literature
Shakespeare
Audio Theater
Price : $18.49
Shakespeare's dramatic and complex comedy. More... |
Written By : Sir Thomas Malory
Narrator : Frederick Davidson
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 17 hours 30 minutes
Type : Classic Literature
Price : $33.95
" Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in,
delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose."--Robert Graves
This... More... |
Written By : Edward Gibbon
Narrator : Neville Jason
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Length : 8 hours 20 minutes
Type : Classic Literature
Ancient
Price : $27.25
One of the greatest texts in the English language. More... |
Written By : Joseph Conrad
Narrator : Geoffrey Howard
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 11 hours 30 minutes
Type : Classic Literature
Price : $23.95
Under Western Eyes, Conrad’s novel of political treachery and oppression, begins with a bomb that kills a hated Russian minister of police, along with innocent bystanders. A young student named Razumov hides the perpetrator, then betrays him and becomes a spy among his exiled comrades. He faces... More... |
