The Forsyte Chronicles - John Galsworthy

Written by John Galsworthy
Read by David Timson
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

John Galsworthy’s magnificent trilogy of power and passion chronicles the wealthy Forsyte family. As the disintegrating values of the Victorian era progress to World War I and the political uncertainty of the 1930s, the family’s material and emotional struggles are set within the dwindling status of the affluent middle-classes.

Infused with warmth, compassion and engaging characters, the complete chronicles are divided into three volumes, containing nine books and four interludes in total.

1 - The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 1: The Forsyte Saga [The Man of Property; Interlude: Indian Summer of a Forsyte; In Chancery; Interlude: Awakening; To Let]

Length: 38 hrs and 7 mins

In Volume One, The Forsyte Saga, Soames Forsyte - the “man of property” - is desperate to uphold values and conventions that are becoming out of step with the time. His most prized possession is his strikingly beautiful wife, Irene, but she is profoundly unhappy; the bitterness only builds, and the events that follow are set to ripple through the next generation of Forsytes.

2 - The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 2: A Modern Comedy [The White Monkey; Interlude: A Silent Wooing; The Silver Spoon; Interlude: Passers By; Swan Song]

Length: 34 hrs and 21 mins

Volume 2, A Modern Comedy, focuses on Soames’s vivacious daughter, Fleur. Soames tries constantly to protect her but is baffled by the carefree attitudes in post-war London. In their elegant, fashionable house, Fleur and her husband Michael Mont host society gatherings, but her previous affair with Jon Forsyte leaves embers of a passion that are ready to ignite - with dreadful consequences.

3 - The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 3: End of the Chapter [Maid in Waiting; Flowering Wilderness; Over the River]

Length: 30 hrs and 55 mins

The third volume of this gripping family saga, End of the Chapter, shifts to the Cherrells - cousins of the Forsytes by marriage. Young Dinny Cherrell in particular cherishes their ancestral home, Condaford Grange, which represents stability in a rapidly changing world. Through his depiction of the lives and loves of this family, Galsworthy throws a brilliant spotlight on the social and political upheavals of the 1930s.

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