Forsythia: A Memoir of Lost GenerationsiUniverse, 27 juil. 2012 - 706 pages Encased within the drama of John Galsworthys The Forsyte Saga, Peter Hovenden Longley weaves an autobiographical reminiscence of his own English family from the 1880s to the 1960s. Brought up in the last days of Forsythia, a world of the 3 percent born in privilege to serve the British Empire, Longley celebrates his familys lost generations. Nothingneither the abdication of the king and emperor, Edward VIII, in 1936, nor Adolf Hitlers relentless bombscould shake the British peoples conviction that theirs was the eternal kingdom. Doggedly, they believed that after a good cup of strong, Indian tea, and a game of croquet on the lawn, Forsythia would go on forever. Forced to accept that the world they once loved was changing around them, Longleys family and their peers struggled to adapt to a new reality. |
Table des matières
Part Two _ | 69 |
Part Three _ | 164 |
Book TwoIn ChanceryPart One _ | 219 |
Part Two _ | 301 |
Part Three _ | 385 |
Book Three To LetPart One _ | 461 |
Part Two _ | 534 |
Part Three _ | 612 |