by John Galsworthy, Julia Esplen, K Parsons, T. C. Jupp · Macmillan Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780435272708
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«The Man of Property» is the graded reader in English by Julia Esplen, K. Parsons and T. C. Jupp, published by Macmillan Education in 1995, in paperback, 96 pages.
The work adapts the first novel of the Forsyte saga, set in Victorian England of the late 19th century. Soames Forsyte, a lawyer obsessed with the concept of possession, regards his wife Irene as just another property, which triggers a family and social drama. Through the tension between the two, the story portrays the rigidity of the upper class of the era and John Galsworthy's critique of materialism.
Edition from the Macmillan Guided Readers series, Upper Level, designed for students of English. The collection is structured in five levels with different basic vocabulary, with this level corresponding to about 2200 words.
For students of English as a foreign language, and for those who wish to read a classic of English literature with graded vocabulary.
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called The Forsyte Saga, and two later trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.
