I don’t recommend Swan Song to anyone who hasn’t read the other five novels in [The Forsyte Chronicles]. You won’t understand why characters act as they do unless you know what’s happened in earlier books.
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Swan Song Great Novel, Poor Overture
Posted in 1928 Bestselling Novels, Literary, Psychological novel, tagged England, Soames Forsyte, The Forsyte Chronicles, The Modern Comedy on September 17, 2008 | Comments Off
Slender Bridge Destroyed by Weighty Prose
Posted in 1928 Bestselling Novels, Literary, Philosophical, Religious, tagged Inquisition, monk, Peru, Pulitzer Prize on September 3, 2008 | Comments Off
The Bridge of San Luis Rey won Thornton Wilder a Pulitzer Prize in 1928. The novel has since been ignored in favor of less literary but more entertaining reading.
Raintree County Is Impenetrable
Posted in 1948 Bestselling Novels, Historical, Literary, Philosophical, tagged American History, Indiana, nineteenth century on May 7, 2008 | Comments Off
Ross Lockridge Jr.’s Raintree County is one of the best novels you will never read. It’s only for the literati or readers serving consecutive life sentences.
