Title	The Silver Spoon an Passers By
Author	John Galsworthy
Call Number	PR6013.A5S3 1969
Location	2nd Floor Humanities
Rating	Recommended
Book Review	This is the 5th book into  The Forsyte Saga and revolves around Soames Forsyte and his family which came from Devon. The comedic series of well-written novels covers the early 1900's England through 1935, and illustrates the dos and don'ts of high and low society, how wealth is won and lost, and how problems of the wealthy and well connected are solved or not. The Silver Spoon pokes fun at the wealthy and the privileged set. A large section of the novel revolves around a court case for defamation between a wealthy social lite, Fleur, and an actress and a magazine writer, Marjorie  attempting to raise her situation by marrying a titled member of Parliament. The case hinged on shared written words and public comments made against each other during a social gathering. The defaming terms included: immoral, traitress, and snake vs Lion-huntress and snob. It did not go well for  either party - and both were grasping to their society position by refusing to a mutual apology. The Chronicles and the author, Galsworthy received The Nobel Prize in 1932 for the saga, and the author died in 1933.
Submitted By	Annalisa Goode
Department or Major	Law School
Status	Staff
Chapman Email	agoode@chapman.edu