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About the product «Modern Comedy» is the second trilogy of the epic cycle about the Forsyte family — a family whose history, as in a mirror, reflected the very history of England in the first third of the 20th century. Times are changing. Old-fashioned notions of love and friendship, loyalty and honor turn out to be ridiculous, ridiculous. Women become independent, decisive, ironic, and men become tired, wise and indifferent cynical. Over the generation of the «jazz 20s» the shadow of the recently passed World War I hung over. And each of the heroes of the trilogy — consciously or not — became, to one degree or another, a victim of this war. …
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