The Patrician the Patrician
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ISBN10: 1162636076
ISBN13: 9781162636078
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781162636078
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Patrician is a novel written by John Galsworthy, an English writer and playwright. The story is set in the early 20th century and follows the life of a wealthy and influential man named Captain Ferse. He is a member of the British aristocracy, known as the patrician class, which is characterized by its wealth, power, and social status.The novel explores the themes of class, privilege, and social responsibility. It portrays the patrician class as being out of touch with the realities of the world around them, and highlights the growing divide between the wealthy and the working class.Captain Ferse is a complex character, torn between his duty to his class and his own personal beliefs. He is drawn to the socialist movement, which seeks to empower the working class and promote social justice, but he is also deeply entrenched in the traditions and values of the patrician class.Throughout the novel, Captain Ferse struggles to reconcile these conflicting loyalties, ultimately coming to a realization about the need for social change and reform. The Patrician is a thought-provoking and insightful novel that offers a nuanced exploration of class and social dynamics in early 20th century England.1911. English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. The novel begins: Light, entering the vast room-a room so high that its carved ceiling refused itself to exact scrutiny-travelled, with the wistful, cold curiosity of the dawn, over a fantastic storehouse of Time. Light, unaccompanied by the prejudice or human eyes, made strange revelation of incongruities, as though illuminating the dispassionate march of history. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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