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The Forsyte Saga
Chapitres (126)
- Dedication 0:00
- Preface 0:20
- Book I: The Man of Property: Epigraph 8:07
- Dedication 8:20
- I: “At Home” at Old Jolyon’s 8:26
- II: Old Jolyon Goes to the Opera 51:47
- III: Dinner at Swithin’s 1:27:50
- IV: Projection of the House 2:02:37
- V: A Forsyte Ménage 2:25:38
- VI: James at Large 2:41:00
- VII: Old Jolyon’s Peccadillo 3:03:25
- VIII: Plans of the House 3:22:44
- IX: Death of Aunt Ann 3:42:08
- I: Progress of the House 4:04:19
- II: June’s Treat 4:22:00
- III: Drive with Swithin 4:38:03
- IV: James Goes to See for Himself 5:03:55
- V: Soames and Bosinney Correspond 5:28:59
- VI: Old Jolyon at the Zoo 6:03:46
- VII: Afternoon at Timothy’s 6:18:00
- VIII: Dance at Roger’s 6:48:00
- IX: Evening at Richmond 7:08:43
- X: Diagnosis of a Forsyte 7:34:49
- XI: Bosinney on Parole 7:56:46
- XII: June Pays Some Calls 8:08:02
- XIII: Perfection of the House 8:29:15
- XIV: Soames Sits on the Stairs 8:46:58
- I: Mrs. Macander’s Evidence 8:56:39
- II: Night in the Park 9:22:42
- III: Meeting at the Botanical 9:33:39
- IV: Voyage Into the Inferno 10:07:43
- V: The Trial 10:32:31
- VI: Soames Breaks the News 10:52:15
- VII: June’s Victory 11:17:29
- VIII: Bosinney’s Departure 11:36:20
- IX: Irene’s Return 11:58:07
- Interlude: Indian Summer of a Forsyte 12:09:29
- Epigraph 12:09:38
- Dedication 12:09:45
- I 12:09:50
- II 12:51:41
- III 13:07:07
- IV 13:27:00
- V 13:40:32
- Book II: In Chancery: Epigraph 14:13:01
- Dedication 14:13:15
- I: At Timothy’s 14:13:21
- II: Exit a Man of the World 14:35:58
- III: Soames Prepares to Take Steps 15:04:19
- IV: Soho 15:17:12
- V: James Sees Visions 15:32:54
- VI: No-Longer-Young Jolyon at Home 15:46:34
- VII: The Colt and the Filly 16:10:29
- VIII: Jolyon Prosecutes Trusteeship 16:22:14
- IX: Val Hears the News 16:39:14
- X: Soames Entertains the Future 16:59:16
- XI: And Visits the Past 17:09:01
- XII: On Forsyte ’Change 17:21:55
- XIII: Jolyon Finds Out Where He Is 17:48:44
- XIV: Soames Discovers What He Wants 18:02:12
- I: The Third Generation 18:10:12
- II: Soames Puts It to the Touch 18:30:42
- III: Visit to Irene 18:52:15
- IV: Where Forsytes Fear to Tread 19:05:29
- V: Jolly Sits in Judgment 19:22:38
- VI: Jolyon in Two Minds 19:42:13
- VII: Dartie Versus Dartie 19:52:32
- VIII: The Challenge 20:17:16
- IX: Dinner at James’ 20:29:03
- X: Death of the Dog Balthasar 20:43:00
- XI: Timothy Stays the Rot 20:52:40
- XII: Progress of the Chase 21:07:19
- XIII: “Here We Are Again!” 21:20:09
- XIV: Outlandish Night 21:42:20
- I: Soames in Paris 21:48:39
- II: In the Web 22:04:17
- III: Richmond Park 22:12:09
- IV: Over the River 22:28:02
- V: Soames Acts 22:31:17
- VI: A Summer Day 22:37:55
- VII: A Summer Night 22:53:35
- VIII: James in Waiting 23:02:02
- IX: Out of the Web 23:09:44
- X: Passing of an Age 23:30:08
- XI: Suspended Animation 23:55:57
- XII: Birth of a Forsyte 24:11:38
- XIII: James Is Told 24:26:58
- XIV: His 24:38:09
- Awakening: Dedication 24:46:48
- Awakening 24:46:55
- Book III: To Let: Epigraph 25:35:15
- Dedication 25:35:30
- I: Encounter 25:35:35
- II: Fine Fleur Forsyte 26:15:59
- III: At Robin Hill 26:31:31
- IV: The Mausoleum 26:50:02
- V: The Native Heath 27:12:25
- VI: Jon 27:32:18
- VII: Fleur 27:43:02
- VIII: Idyll on Grass 27:56:57
- IX: Goya 28:05:06
- X: Trio 28:30:14
- XI: Duet 28:44:05
- XII: Caprice 28:57:21
- I: Mother and Son 29:18:25
- II: Fathers and Daughters 29:31:04
- III: Meetings 30:04:13
- IV: In Green Street 30:26:19
- V: Purely Forsyte Affairs 30:39:48
- VI: Soames’ Private Life 30:55:52
- VII: June Takes a Hand 31:18:17
- VIII: The Bit Between the Teeth 31:29:49
- IX: The Fat in the Fire 31:43:43
- X: Decision 32:02:05
- XI: Timothy Prophesies 32:10:52
- I: Old Jolyon Walks 32:37:05
- II: Confession 32:58:17
- III: Irene 33:14:03
- IV: Soames Cogitates 33:24:50
- V: The Fixed Idea 33:39:30
- VI: Desperate 33:49:01
- VII: Embassy 34:07:44
- VIII: The Dark Tune 34:26:38
- IX: Under the Oak-Tree 34:39:31
- X: Fleur’s Wedding 34:44:55
- XI: The Last of the Old Forsytes 35:07:41
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Between 1906 and 1921 John Galsworthy published three novels chronicling the Forsyte family, a fictional upper-middle class family at the end of the Victorian era: The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let. In 1922 Galsworthy wrote two interconnecting short stories to bind the three novels together and published the whole as The Forsyte Saga.
While the novels follow the Forsyte family at large, the action centers around Soames Forsyte—the scion of a nouveau-riche London tea merchant—his wife Irene, and their unhappy marriage. Soames and his sprawling family are portrayed as stereotypes of unhappy gilded-age wealth, their family having entered the industrial revolution poor farmers and emerged as wealthy bourgeoise. Their rise was powered by their capacity to acquire, won at the expense of their capacity for almost anything else.
Thematically, the saga focuses on the mores of the wealthy upper-middle class, which was still a newish feature in the class landscape of England at the time; duty, honor, and love; and the rapidly growing differences across generations occurring in a period of war and social change. The characters are complex and nuanced, and the situations they find themselves in—both of their own making, and of the making of society around them—provide a rich field for analyzing the close of the Victorian age, the dawn of the Edwardian age, and the societal frameworks that were forged in that frisson.
Galsworthy went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 for The Forsyte Saga, one of the rare occasions in which the Swedish Academy has awarded a prize for a specific work instead of for a lifetime of work.