The white monkey

Összefoglaló

John Glasworthy's nine Forsyte novels span fifty years of family decline, from the 1880s to the 1930s. In seeking to insulate themselves by property from reality and the disintegration of their class, the Forsytes are gragually blinded to the threats os social change and "the stealthy march of passion". Glasworthy tackles his huge theme - the death of the upper-middle classes - with a unique blend of irony and understanding. Soames Forsyte's daughter, Fleur, is now married to Michael Mont, a publisher. One of his authors, Wilfred Desert, a young war-poet, is the star-turn of artistic parties... until FLeur's teasing provokes Desert to a danger-point. Meanwhile Soames, elected to the board of the Providental Premium Reassurance Society, wonders whether the firm is quite so respectable as it sounds.