The Forsyte Saga, Volume 3: To Let
Written by John Galsworthy
Narrated by Peter Joyce
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The house at Richmond is finished at last, but Soames takes Bosinney to court for exceeding the budget. The final judgment of their case turns on ‘a very fine point’ in their correspondence.
The architect does not heed Young Jolyon’s warning and continues to pursue Irene - with fatal consequences.
Old Jolyon effects a complete reconciliation with his son and changes his will as a result, further distancing himself from his brother James in the process. The rift will continue through into the next generation.
The old man purchases Robin Hill and spends the remaining days of his life in the company of Irene, now teaching music and ‘assisting the Magdelenes of London’. This charming interlude brings Galsworthy’s Book 1 of the Saga to a close.
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John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy was a Nobel-Prize (1932) winning English dramatist, novelist, and poet born to an upper-middle class family in Surrey, England. He attended Harrow and trained as a barrister at New College, Oxford. Although called to the bar in 1890, rather than practise law, Galsworthy travelled extensively and began to write. It was as a playwright Galsworthy had his first success. His plays—like his most famous work, the series of novels comprising The Forsyte Saga—dealt primarily with class and the social issues of the day, and he was especially harsh on the class from which he himself came.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A touching portrait of age letting go of life, grieving only, in the end, for beauty and love, but frustrated by the bounds that old age and loved ones place on us. Galsworthy can be a supercilious author but his description of Jolyan as he approaches death is magnificent.