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The Forsyte Saga, Volume 3
It chronicles an upper-middle-class English family keenly aware of their "new money" status.
"The Forsyte Saga, Volume III" by John Galsworthy is a series of three novels and two interludes. It chronicles an upper-middle-class English family keenly aware of their "new money" status.
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Through the massive skylight illuminating the hall at Robin Hill, the July sunlight at five o'clock fell just where the broad stairway turned; and in that radiant streak little Jon Forsyte stood, blue-linen-suited. His hair was shining, and his eyes, from beneath a frown, for he was considering how to go downstairs, this last of innumerable times, before the car brought his father and mother home. Four at a time, and five at the bottom? Stale! Down the banisters? But in which fashion? On his face, feet foremost? Very stale. On his stomach, sideways? Paltry! On his back, with his arms stretched down on both sides? Forbidden! Or on his face, head foremost, in a manner unknown as yet to any but himself? Such was the cause of the frown on the illuminated face of little Jon....
In that Summer of 1909 the simple souls who even then desired to simplify the English tongue, had, of course, no cognizance of little Jon, or they would have claimed him for a disciple. But one can be too simple in this life, for his real name was Jolyon, and his living father and dead half-brother had usurped of old the other shortenings, Jo and Jolly. As a fact little Jon had done his best to conform to convention and spell himself first Jhon, then John; not till his father had explained the sheer necessity, had he spelled his name Jon.
Contents
- 01Awakening
- 02To Let
- 03Part I
- 04I.—Encounter
- 05II.—Fine Fleur Forsyte
- 06III.—At Robin Hill
- 07IV.—The Mausoleum
- 08V.—The Native Heath
- 09VI.—Jon
- 10VII.—Fleur
- 11VIII.—Idyll on Grass
- 12IX. Goya
- 13X.—Trio
- 14XI.—Duet
- 15XII.—Caprice
- 16Part II
- 17I.—Mother and Son
- 18II.—Fathers and Daughters
- 19III.—Meetings
- 20IV.—In Green Street
- 21V.—Purely Forsyte Affairs
- 22VI.—Soames' Private Life
- 23VII.—June Takes a Hand
- 24VIII.—The Bit Between the Teeth
- 25IX.—The Fat in the Fire
- 26X.—Decision
- 27XI.—Timothy Prophesies
- 28Part III
- 29I.—Old Jolyon Walks
- 30II.—Confession
- 31III.—Irene
- 32IV.—Soames Cogitates
- 33V.—The Fixed Idea
- 34VI.—Desperate
- 35VII.—Embassy
- 36VIII.—The Dark Tune
- 37IX.—Under the Oak-Tree
- 38X.—Fleur's Wedding
- 39XI.—The Last of the Old Forsytes
About this edition
- Author
- John Galsworthy
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 254 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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