The Forsyte saga - Complete

Name: The Forsyte saga - Complete
Author: Galsworthy

Galsworthy

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The word Saga might be objected to on the ground that it connotes the heroic and that there is little heroism in these pages.
As surely as a dog will bark at a brass band, so will the essential Soames in human nature ever rise up uneasily against the dissolution which hovers round the folds of ownership.

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PREFACE:Sample
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II OLD JOLYON GOES TO THE OPERA
CHAPTER III DINNER AT SWITHIN’S
CHAPTER IV PROJECTION OF THE HOUSE
CHAPTER V A FORSYTE MÉNAGE
CHAPTER VI JAMES AT LARGE
CHAPTER VII OLD JOLYON’S PECCADILLO
CHAPTER VIII PLANS OF THE HOUSE
DEATH OF AUNT ANN
Chapter
PROGRESS OF THE HOUSE
CHAPTER II JUNE’S TREAT
CHAPTER III DRIVE WITH SWITHIN
CHAPTER IV JAMES GOES TO SEE FOR HIMSELF
SOAMES AND BOSINNEY CORRESPOND
L ANE
CHAPTER VI OLD JOLYON AT THE ZOO
CHAPTER VII AFTERNOON AT TIMOTHY’S
CHAPTER VIII DANCE AT ROGER’S
EVENING AT RICHMOND
D ARTIE.
CHAPTER X DIAGNOSIS OF A FORSYTE
CHAPTER XI BOSINNEY ON PAROLE
CHAPTER XII JUNE PAYS SOME CALLS
CHAPTER XIII PERFECTION OF THE HOUSE
CHAPTER XIV SOAMES SITS ON THE STAIRS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II NIGHT IN THE PARK
CHAPTER III MEETING AT THE BOTANICAL
CHAPTER IV VOYAGE INTO THE INFERNO
CHAPTER V THE TRIAL
CHAPTER VI SOAMES BREAKS THE NEWS
CHAPTER VII JUNE’S VICTORY
CHAPTER VIII BOSINNEY’S DEPARTURE
CHAPTER IX IRENE’S RETURN
I
II
III
Preface
I RENE
Preface
I RENE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II EXIT A MAN OF THE WORLD
CHAPTER III SOAMES PREPARES TO TAKE STEPS
CHAPTER IV
D ESIRABLE
CHAPTER V JAMES SEES VISIONS
CHAPTER VI NO-LONGER-YOUNG JOLYON AT HOME
CHAPTER VII THE COLT AND THE FILLY
CHAPTER VIII JOLYON PROSECUTES TRUSTEESHIP
CHAPTER IX VAL HEARS THE NEWS
CHAPTER X SOAMES ENTERTAINS THE FUTURE
CHAPTER XI AND VISITS THE PAST
CHAPTER XII ON FORSYTE ’CHANGE
JOLYON FINDS OUT WHERE HE IS
SOAMES DISCOVERS WHAT HE WANTS
THE THIRD GENERATION
CHAPTER II SOAMES PUTS IT TO THE TOUCH
CHAPTER III VISIT TO IRENE
WHERE FORSYTES FEAR TO TREAD
M ONTAGUE
D ARTIE
CHAPTER V JOLLY SITS IN JUDGMENT
CHAPTER VI JOLYON IN TWO MINDS
CHAPTER VII DARTIE VERSUS DARTIE
CHAPTER VIII THE CHALLENGE
CHAPTER IX DINNER AT JAMES’
CHAPTER X DEATH OF THE DOG BALTHASAR
CHAPTER XI TIMOTHY STAYS THE ROT
CHAPTER XII PROGRESS OF THE CHASE
CHAPTER XIII “HERE WE ARE AGAIN!”
CHAPTER XIV OUTLANDISH NIGHT
SOAMES IN PARIS
CHAPTER II IN THE WEB
CHAPTER III RICHMOND PARK
CHAPTER IV OVER THE RIVER
CHAPTER V SOAMES ACTS
CHAPTER VI
L AVER
CHAPTER VII A SUMMER NIGHT
CHAPTER VIII JAMES IN WAITING
OUT OF THE WEB
M ADAME
CHAPTER X PASSING OF AN AGE
CHAPTER XI SUSPENDED ANIMATION
CHAPTER XII BIRTH OF A FORSYTE
CHAPTER XIII JAMES IS TOLD
CHAPTER XIV
TO CHARLES SCRIBNER
PART I
III.—AT ROBIN HILL
Preface
IX. GOYA
X.—TRIO
PART II
III.—MEETINGS
VI.—SOAMES' PRIVATE LIFE
IX.—THE FAT IN THE FIRE
PART III
V.—THE FIXED IDEA
VIII.—THE DARK TUNE