The Forsyte SagaOxford University Press, 1999 - 872 pages The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife Irene reverberates throughout the saga. Written with both compassion and ironic detachment, Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only the family's fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women in an intensely competitive male world. Above all, Galsworthy is concerned with the conflict at the heart of English culture between the soulless materialism of wealth and property and the humane instincts of love, beauty, and art. |
Contents
PART I | 15 |
OLD JOLYON GOES TO THE OPERA | 31 |
DINNER AT SWITHINS | 45 |
PROJECTION OF THE HOUSE | 59 |
A FORSYTE MÉNAGE | 68 |
JAMES AT LARGE | 74 |
OLD JOLYONS PECCADILLO | 83 |
PLANS OF THE HOUSE | 90 |
DEATH OF THE DOG BALTHASAR | 500 |
TIMOTHY STAYS THE ROT | 504 |
PROGRESS OF THE CHASE | 510 |
HERE WE ARE AGAIN | 514 |
OUTLANDISH NIGHT | 523 |
SOAMES IN PARIS | 527 |
IN THE WEB | 532 |
RICHMOND PARK | 536 |
DEATH OF AUNT ANN | 98 |
PART II | 107 |
JUNES TREAT | 114 |
DRIVE WITH SWITHIN | 120 |
JAMES GOES TO SEE FOR HIMSELF | 130 |
SOAMES AND BOSINNEY CORRESPOND | 140 |
OLD JOLYON AT THE ZOO | 154 |
AFTERNOON AT TIMOTHYS | 160 |
DANCE AT ROGERS | 172 |
EVENING AT RICHMOND | 180 |
DIAGNOSIS OF A FORSYTE | 190 |
BOSINNEY ON PAROLE | 198 |
JUNE PAYS SOME CALLS | 203 |
PERFECTION OF THE HOUSE | 211 |
SOAMES SITS ON THE STAIRS | 218 |
PART III | 223 |
NIGHT IN THE PARK | 233 |
MEETING AT THE BOTANICAL | 237 |
VOYAGE INTO THE INFERNO | 249 |
THE TRIAL | 259 |
SOAMES BREAKS THE NEWS | 267 |
JUNES VICTORY | 277 |
BOSINNEYS DEPARTURE | 284 |
IRENES RETURN | 292 |
INTERLUDE INDIAN SUMMER OF A FORSYTE | 299 |
IN CHANCERY | 347 |
PART I | 349 |
EXIT A MAN OF THE WORLD | 357 |
SOAMES PREPARES TO TAKE STEPS | 367 |
SOHO | 372 |
JAMES SEES VISIONS | 378 |
NOLONGERYOUNG JOLYON AT HOME | 384 |
THE COLT AND THE FILLY | 393 |
JOLYON PROSECUTES TRUSTEESHIP | 397 |
VAL HEARS THE NEWS | 404 |
SOAMES ENTERTAINS THE FUTURE | 412 |
AND VISITS THE PAST | 416 |
ON FORSYTE CHANGE | 421 |
JOLYON FINDS OUT WHERE HE IS | 431 |
SOAMES DISCOVERS WHAT HE WANTS | 436 |
PART II | 441 |
SOAMES PUTS IT TO THE TOUCH | 449 |
VISIT TO IRENE | 457 |
WHERE FORSYTES FEAR TO TREAD | 462 |
JOLLY SITS IN JUDGMENT | 469 |
JOLYON IN TWO MINDS | 476 |
DARTIE VERSUS DARTIE | 480 |
THE CHALLENGE | 490 |
DINNER AT JAMESS | 494 |
OVER THE RIVER | 542 |
SOAMES ACTS | 543 |
A SUMMER DAY | 546 |
A SUMMER NIGHT | 552 |
JAMES IN WAITING | 554 |
OUT OF THE WEB | 558 |
PASSING OF AN AGE | 565 |
SUSPENDED ANIMATION | 574 |
BIRTH OF A FORSYTE | 580 |
JAMES IS TOLD | 586 |
HIS | 590 |
INTERLUDE AWAKENING | 595 |
TO LET | 617 |
PART I | 619 |
FINE FLEUR FORSYTE | 634 |
AT ROBIN HILL | 640 |
THE MAUSOLEUM | 647 |
THE NATIVE HEATH | 655 |
JON | 663 |
FLEUR | 668 |
IDYLL ON GRASS | 673 |
GOYA | 676 |
TRIO | 686 |
DUET | 691 |
CAPRICE | 697 |
PART II | 707 |
FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS | 711 |
MEETINGS | 724 |
IN GREEN STREET | 733 |
PURELY FORSYTE AFFAIRS | 738 |
SOAMESS PRIVATE LIFE | 744 |
JUNE TAKES A HAND | 753 |
THE BIT BETWEEN THE TEETH | 757 |
THE FAT IN THE FIRE | 763 |
DECISION | 770 |
TIMOTHY PROPHESIES | 774 |
PART III | 785 |
CONFESSION | 792 |
IRENE | 798 |
SOAMES COGITATES | 802 |
THE FIXED IDEA | 808 |
DESPERATE | 811 |
EMBASSY | 818 |
THE DARK TUNE | 825 |
UNDER THE OAKTREE | 830 |
FLEURS WEDDING | 832 |
THE LAST OF THE OLD FORSYTES | 841 |
Explanatory Notes | 851 |
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Common terms and phrases
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