** Strife** by **John Galsworthy **is a novel set in 19th century England. The story follows the lives of two young men, Will and Danny Boyle, as they try to find their place in the world.
Will is a talented artist who dreams of creating great art, but his family is poor and struggles to make ends meet. He falls in love with a rich woman who offers him a place to live in exchange for his paintings. But as his relationship with her progresses, Will realizes that she has ulterior motives and wants to use his talents for her own gain.
Meanwhile, Danny Boyle works in a seaside cafe where he meets a beautiful woman named Sylvia. They fall in love, and he decides to marry her and leave his job there. However, a mysterious stranger appears in his life, claiming to be Sylvia's husband who is missing. Danny is unsure what to believe, and his decision to divorce Sylvia threatens his relationship.
The novel chronicles the struggles and disappointments of these three characters and explores themes of betrayal, infidelity, and how art and love can be intertwined.
Susan had entered upon her thirteenth summer, the climatic season for ladylike maturity. Sumptuous sunny days brought with them an intense awareness of youthful being; crescendos of attention surrounded her as she healthily sauntered down the broad esplanades across London Town; she was the center of compassionate gazes, tickled by sharp young fancies, amidst all-compelling attractions of rockthese her mandated sensibilities her upbringing endorses for her. Suzie by turns suffered at the munificence of several more confident young admirers, administered in active denial of their design. Her father, with ill-concealed anxiety, would pester her and her mother about security after every notable incident; Suzy prowled corridors as her courtiers vacillated between bull-headed docility and either diffident wretchedness or discomfiture, menace of improbably impetuous lady woe and maiden held aloft, lingered just beyond sight, but always far too much, too little likelihood her capricious fiancé under competent auspices. All of the gentleman sons of Westminster were plummed likewise intricately into her network of exquisite pity. She challenged herself, seemingly, to uncover the essence of a gentleman and witness his beseeching darkness. Without strife she metamorphosed from a rayon of ornament and ornithopter to a young woman. For a short time she succumbed to courtship, pursues understanding the happinesses that come from potential cracked tiaras and vacillant echelons. When adversity loomed large, realising her endurance could sustain her meteoric position, she turned away from the stellar obsession of her life - and later married wealthier than memory.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9783742928030
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