Maid in Waiting

Name: Maid in Waiting
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: John Galsworthy
ISBN: 9781433239502

Author: John Galsworthy

Narrator: David Case

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Maid in Waiting is the beginning novel in the last trilogy of John Galsworthys Forsyte Chronicles. In this seventh installment, the story continues of the lives and times, loves and losses, fortunes and deaths of the fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians, the Forsytes.

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andie on October 16, 2020

This is the first book in the last trilogy of Galsworthy's monumental 9-volume saga of the a family from the late 19th Century through the early 1930's. Although I have read the first 6 books, I never read the last three because they center on a totally different family - the Cherrells - who are cou......more