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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. The definitive corrected text, including Faulkner's Appendix One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100...

Liverpool, 1938. It’s Christmas in the Courts, and single mother Rosheen Clarke and her mischievous twin daughters, April and May, have no idea of the cataclysmic events which will soon overtake them. When war is declared, April and May are evacuated to the countryside, and Rosheen joins the WAAF, where she befriends fellow Liverpudlian Cassie Valentine. While Rosheen worries about what trouble the twins will cause next, Cassie is fighting her love for her childhood friend, Andy.

Il possidente è il primo volume della storica saga ambientata nel cinico mondo altoborghese dell’età vittoriana, che valse all'autore il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura. La saga dei Forsyte prende avvio dal racconto dell’amore possessivo di Soames Forsyte per la bella Irene Heron. Per lei Soames fa costruire una villa nei sobborghi di Londra: un rifugio, forse una prigione. Ma tra Irene e Philip Bosinney, l’architetto progettista, si accende qualcosa di insondabile e pericoloso.