Flowering Wilderness, John Galsworthy
Flowering Wilderness, John Galsworthy
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Flowering Wilderness

Author: John Galsworthy, Phoenix Recordings

Narrator: David Case

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Synopsis

John Galsworthy devoted virtually his entire professional career to creating the fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians, the Forsytes. He made their lives and times, loves and losses, and fortunes and deaths so real that readers accused him of including real individuals whom they knew as the characters in his drama.Flowering Wilderness, the middle novel of the third trilogy, called End of the Chapter, is the eighth novel in Galsworthy’s Forsyte Chronicles, which has become established as one of the most popular and enduring works of twentieth-century literature and was described by the New York Times as “a social satire of epic proportions and one that does not suffer by comparison with Thackeray’s Vanity Fair…[A] comedy of manners, convincing both in its fidelity to life and as a work of art.”

About John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (1867–1933), English novelist and playwright, went to Oxford to study law but turned to literature after he met Joseph Conrad on a voyage. The Man of Property (1906), the first of the Forsyte Chronicles, established his reputation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.

About David Case

Frederick Davidson (1932–2005), also known as David Case, was one of the most prolific readers in the audiobook industry, recording more than eight hundred audiobooks in his lifetime, including over two hundred for Blackstone Audio. Born in London, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and performed for many years in radio plays for the British Broadcasting Company before coming to America in 1976. He received AudioFile’s Golden Voice Award and numerous Earphones Awards and was nominated for a Grammy for his readings.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sara on June 29, 2012

Beautifully written and deeply moving, this is Galsworthy at his absolute best. I do hesitate to read the next one - the final one in the series. It feels as if Galsworthy became more pessimistic about love, and its ability to endure trauma (or testing) over time. I love the family and the character......more

Goodreads review by Judith on April 05, 2013

This is a book written by a mature man wishing to use the Forsyte popularity to express his view of the British lower aristocracy. Amazingly, the issues he chooses are more than current - The divergence of attitudes towards animals between Westerners and others and the problem of Muslim violence. It......more

Goodreads review by Barbarroja on June 21, 2021

Me encontré con esta novela por casualidad, en una estantería donde la había visto miles de veces. Todos conocemos el viejo dicho de que no se debe juzgar un libro por su portada (que en mi caso no es la de esta edición, sino otra con una de esas fotos horribles de imagen real en la que aparece una......more

Goodreads review by Ali on December 12, 2015

Flowering Wilderness is the second book in the third volume titled The End of Chapter. This novel continues the story of the Cherrell/Charwell family who are related by marriage to Fleur Mont (nee Forsyte, daughter of Galsworthy’s great creation Soames Forsyte). As the novel opens three figures each......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on June 05, 2018

3.5 my least favorite so far. Although it does give great insight into the mind set of 1930s G.B.......more

Quotes

“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

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