The Forsyte Saga (Wordsworth Classics)

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Eagle, Dorothy; Hilary Carnell (1977). The Oxford Literary Guide to the British Isles. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-869123-5.

He observes at one point that ‘money makes money’– and has so much he doesn’t know what to do with it. But so fierce is the drive to hereditary capital accumulation that can only think of having children to whom he can bequeath his wealth. Therefore, the child has to be a son, so that the money will stay in his name, and in his family.

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Finally Jon and Irene go out to her and she accuses Irene of trying to keep Jon "all to herself" claiming "he's mine!" It is then that Jon realises that she is like her father, and thinks of people as being possessions. Fleur, exhausted, reluctantly goes home with her father. Under pressure from her stepmother, Irene accepts Soames' proposal under the condition that if she should not be happy, he should let her go. They share an awkward, rigid kiss in the street. Galsworthy’s use of the term is slightly ironic. He did go on to write more episodes (two more trilogies) of the Forsyte family, and gave the collective name to these works The Forsyte Chronicles, but it is the original trilogy which has remained his most enduringly popular creation.

June, Young Jolyon's defiant daughter from his first marriage; engaged to an architect, Philip Bosinney, who becomes Irene's lover By this time Galsworthy had returned to the Forsytes; he wrote a second novel about the family, In Chancery, published in October 1920. Within a year he completed another Forsyte short story (or "interlude"), called "Awakening", and a third novel, To Let, published in September 1921. [65] A month later the International PEN Club (standing for "Poets, Essayists, Novelists") was founded in London, with Galsworthy as its president, a position he held for the rest of his life. [3] In May 1922 the three Forsyte novels were issued in a single volume as The Forsyte Saga, and sold prodigiously – more than two million copies within months of publication, according to one account, although Galsworthy's major biographers do not give a figure. [6] [66] After a private funeral and cremation, a memorial service was held at Westminster Abbey, attended by members of the Cabinet including the prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, European ambassadors, fellow authors including Sir James Barrie, Laurence Binyon, Walter de la Mare and Sir Arthur Pinero, and representatives of numerous charities that Galsworthy had supported. [80] In accordance with his will, his ashes were scattered from an aeroplane over the South Downs. [79] Works [ edit ]Galsworthy nonetheless was consistently enthusiastic about Wodehouse's comic novels, one of his few tastes that Ada did not share. [102] Poniewozik, James (7 October 2002). "Still Your Grandfather's PBS". Time. Vol.160, no.15. p.94. Archived from the original on 3 October 2020 . Retrieved 26 May 2020. Galsworthy senior, like his predecessors, pronounced the surname with a short "a" as in "gallery"; his son changed the pronunciation of the first syllable to " Gaul" in the belief that the name derived from Gaulish (i.e. French) ancestry. [2]