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The Forsyte Saga, Volume 2

John Galsworthy

The saga chronicles an upper-middle-class English family acutely conscious of their "new money" status.

"The Forsyte Saga, Volume II" by John Galsworthy is a series of novels and interludes. The saga chronicles an upper-middle-class English family acutely conscious of their "new money" status.

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Two days of rain, and summer set in bland and sunny. Old Jolyon walked and talked with Holly. At first he felt taller and full of a new vigour; then he felt restless. Almost every afternoon they would enter the coppice, and walk as far as the log. “Well, she’s not there!” he would think, “of course not!” And he would feel a little shorter, and drag his feet walking up the hill home, with his hand clapped to his left side. Now and then the thought would move in him: “Did she come—or did I dream it?” and he would stare at space, while the dog Balthasar stared at him. Of course she would not come again! He opened the letters from Spain with less excitement. They were not returning till July; he felt, oddly, that he could bear it. Every day at dinner he screwed up his eyes and looked at where she had sat. She was not there, so he unscrewed his eyes again.

On the seventh afternoon he thought: “I must go up and get some boots.” He ordered Beacon, and set out. Passing from Putney towards Hyde Park he reflected: “I might as well go to Chelsea and see her.” And he called out: “Just drive me to where you took that lady the other night.” The coachman turned his broad red face, and his juicy lips answered: “The lady in grey, sir?”

“Yes, the lady in grey.” What other ladies were there! Stodgy chap!

Contents

  1. 01Indian Summer of a Forsyte
  2. 02I
  3. 03II
  4. 04III
  5. 05IV
  6. 06V
  7. 07In Chancery
  8. 08Part 1
  9. 09Chapter Iat Timothy’s
  10. 10Chapter Iiexit a Man of the World
  11. 11Chapter Iiisoames Prepares to Take Steps
  12. 12Chapter Ivsoho
  13. 13Chapter Vjames Sees Visions
  14. 14Chapter Vino-Longer-Young Jolyon at Home
  15. 15Chapter Viithe Colt and the Filly
  16. 16Chapter Viiijolyon Prosecutes Trusteeship
  17. 17Chapter Ixval Hears the News
  18. 18Chapter Xsoames Entertains the Future
  19. 19Chapter Xiand Visits the Past
  20. 20Chapter Xiion Forsyte ’Change
  21. 21Chapter Xiiijolyon Finds Out Where He Is
  22. 22Chapter Xivsoames Discovers What He Wants
  23. 23Part II
  24. 24Chapter Ithe Third Generation
  25. 25Chapter Iisoames Puts It to the Touch
  26. 26Chapter Iiivisit to Irene
  27. 27Chapter Ivwhere Forsytes Fear to Tread
  28. 28Chapter Vjolly Sits in Judgment
  29. 29Chapter Vijolyon in Two Minds
  30. 30Chapter Viidartie Versus Dartie
  31. 31Chapter Viiithe Challenge
  32. 32Chapter Ixdinner at James’
  33. 33Chapter Xdeath of the Dog Balthasar
  34. 34Chapter Xitimothy Stays the Rot
  35. 35Chapter Xiiprogress of the Chase
  36. 36Chapter Xiii“here We Are Again!”
  37. 37Chapter Xivoutlandish Night
  38. 38Part III
  39. 39Chapter Isoames in Paris
  40. 40Chapter Iiin the Web
  41. 41Chapter Iiirichmond Park
  42. 42Chapter Ivover the River
  43. 43Chapter Vsoames Acts
  44. 44Chapter Via Summer Day
  45. 45Chapter Viia Summer Night
  46. 46Chapter Viiijames in Waiting
  47. 47Chapter Ixout of the Web
  48. 48Chapter Xpassing of an Age
  49. 49Chapter Xisuspended Animation
  50. 50Chapter Xiibirth of a Forsyte
  51. 51Chapter Xiiijames Is Told
  52. 52Chapter Xivhis

About this edition

Author
John Galsworthy
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
349 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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