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    The Dark Flower
    The Dark Flower
    The Dark Flower
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    The Dark Flower

    By John Galsworthy

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1968
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    John Galsworthy

    John Galsworthy was a Nobel-Prize (1932) winning English dramatist, novelist, and poet born to an upper-middle class family in Surrey, England. He attended Harrow and trained as a barrister at New College, Oxford. Although called to the bar in 1890, rather than practise law, Galsworthy travelled extensively and began to write. It was as a playwright Galsworthy had his first success. His plays—like his most famous work, the series of novels comprising The Forsyte Saga—dealt primarily with class and the social issues of the day, and he was especially harsh on the class from which he himself came.

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      A mans life shown through his (desperate and hopeless) loves. Not a bad story but hopelessly oldfashioned. For me at least.
    • 4/5
      Acquired via BookCrossing 30 May 2009 - bags from Julie & BarryA Galsworthy separate from the Forsyte Saga but with similar themes and of course style. We meet Mark Lennan at three stages of his life and loves: first as a young man in love with his professor's wife; then in mid-years in a romantic attachment with a married woman (echoes of the Forsyte Saga here although it ends in melodrama which was maybe a bit silly); and then as a mid-40s married man with his head turned by a much younger woman. Atmospheric and evocative, patterned (he flees to Italy after each episode) but not too much so, and although a little dispiriting, a lovely piece of writing. As the introduction says, it's a shame that Galsworthy is not more appreciated these days, as his acqaintance Conrad is.

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