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The Forsyte Saga, Volume 1
The work chronicles an upper-middle-class English family keenly aware of their "new money" status.
"The Forsyte Saga, Volume I" by John Galsworthy is a series of three novels and two interludes. The work chronicles an upper-middle-class English family keenly aware of their "new money" status.
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Those privileged to be present at a family festival of the Forsytes have seen that charming and instructive sight—an upper middle-class family in full plumage. But whosoever of these favoured persons has possessed the gift of psychological analysis (a talent without monetary value and properly ignored by the Forsytes), has witnessed a spectacle, not only delightful in itself, but illustrative of an obscure human problem. In plainer words, he has gleaned from a gathering of this family—no branch of which had a liking for the other, between no three members of whom existed anything worthy of the name of sympathy—evidence of that mysterious concrete tenacity which renders a family so formidable a unit of society, so clear a reproduction of society in miniature. He has been admitted to a vision of the dim roads of social progress, has understood something of patriarchal life, of the swarmings of savage hordes, of the rise and fall of nations. He is like one who, having watched a tree grow from its planting—a paragon of tenacity, insulation, and success, amidst the deaths of a hundred other plants less fibrous, sappy, and persistent—one day will see it flourishing with bland, full foliage, in an almost repugnant prosperity, at the summit of its efflorescence.
On June 15, eighteen eighty-six, about four of the afternoon, the observer who chanced to be present at the house of old Jolyon Forsyte in Stanhope Gate, might have seen the highest efflorescence of the Forsytes.
Contents
- 01Preface:
- 02The Man of Property
- 03by John Galsworthy
- 04To Edward Garnett
- 05Part I
- 06Chapter I“at Home” at Old Jolyon’s
- 07Chapter Iiold Jolyon Goes to the Opera
- 08Chapter Iiidinner at Swithin’s
- 09Chapter Ivprojection of the House
- 10Chapter Va Forsyte Ménage
- 11Chapter Vijames at Large
- 12Chapter Viiold Jolyon’s Peccadillo
- 13Chapter Viiiplans of the House
- 14Chapter Ixdeath of Aunt Ann
- 15Part II
- 16Chapter Iprogress of the House
- 17Chapter Iijune’s Treat
- 18Chapter Iiidrive with Swithin
- 19Chapter Ivjames Goes to See for Himself
- 20Chapter Vsoames and Bosinney Correspond
- 21Chapter Viold Jolyon at the Zoo
- 22Chapter Viiafternoon at Timothy’s
- 23Chapter Viiidance at Roger’s
- 24Chapter Ixevening at Richmond
- 25Chapter Xdiagnosis of a Forsyte
- 26Chapter Xibosinney on Parole
- 27Chapter Xiijune Pays Some Calls
- 28Chapter Xiiiperfection of the House
- 29Chapter Xivsoames Sits on the Stairs
- 30Part III
- 31Chapter Imrs. Macander’s Evidence
- 32Chapter Iinight in the Park
- 33Chapter Iiimeeting at the Botanical
- 34Chapter Ivvoyage Into the Inferno
- 35Chapter Vthe Trial
- 36Chapter Visoames Breaks the News
- 37Chapter Viijune’s Victory
- 38Chapter Viiibosinney’s Departure
- 39Chapter Ixirene’s Return
About this edition
- Author
- John Galsworthy
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 305 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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