
In Chancery
The Forsyte Saga, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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David Case
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By:
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John Galsworthy
After suffering the death of her lover and abuse from her husband, Soames, Irene Forsyte finally leaves her marriage for good. Though socially disgraced by her affair, she forms a bond with the late Old Jolyon, a father of the Forsyte clan who had grown distant from the family after reconciling with one of his outcast sons. The young Jolyon had been disinherited after divorcing his wife to marry a penniless foreign governess.
Now, with both his father and his beloved wife dead, the younger Jolyon finds himself drawn in sympathy to Irene, who was so dear to Old Jolyon in his final days. Their shared troubles blossom into a romance, to the horror of Soames Forsyte.
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Better than the first
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Rivetting story, exquisite narration
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Fascinating story - great insight
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The Saga Continues
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The rendition is top notch.
A treat for the soul and the brain
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Excellent: but note that end of file is incorrect
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Excellent, just like the first book!
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Keeps getting better
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I know how he feels. No, I haven’t lost my girlfriend. But I have been captivated by the Forsyte Saga. And after a brief
Google search I realize, like that young novelist, that “this was not a good thing to be”. Granted, Galsworthy may be "readable", but his prose is "too smooth". His characters are “creaky”. Their quandaries “no longer resonate with us”. Summing up, one critic comes close to echoing the Russian celebrity: “Galsworthy is not much good”.
Part of the critics’ sniffy disapproval has to do with the radical new way Virginia Woolf portrayed her characters’ inner life--apparently a literary watershed, leaving everything written before Woolf in the academic dustbin. The rest, I sense, is rooted in Galsworthy’s gradual transformation from a “near Socialist” to a writer who, “came to terms” with society and it's foibles. All I know is, I appreciate his evenhandedness: if Soames Forstye sees art primarily as an investment, his cousin June is just as seriously frivolous in her scorn for all successful artists and her promotion of unknown talent, her “lame ducks”, in hopes that they will become…successful. Both are, in their own grasping or progressive way, Philistines.
Be that as it may, if you want an engaging story that grapples with our fear of death and dissolution, the struggle to live unaided by any but the vaguest sense of faith (oddly enough, the children are the ones who bring God into conversations, not their elders), our innate need to perpetuate our name (the next best thing to immortality in a world without faith), and the double-edged issue of property (in all its forms, in all aspects of life), then you should enjoy this series. And if you want a narrator who derives every nuance from a sentence, serving each up in a way that’s a treat to hear, you can’t do better than David Case / Frederick Davidson.
Galsworthy Is Not Much Good
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Great!
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