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  The Forsyte Saga

  The Man of Property; In Chancery; To Let

  by John Galsworthy

  The Forsyte Saga is John Galsworthy's monumental chronicle of the lives of the moneyed Forsytes, a family whose values are constantly at war with its passions. The story of Soames Forsyte's marriage to the beautiful and rebellious Irene, and its effects upon the whole Forsyte clan, The Forsyte Saga is a brilliant social satire of the acquisitive sensibilities of a comfort-bound class in its final glory.... (more)
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  The Dark Flower

  by John Galsworthy

  Covering almost 30 years in the life and loves of Mark Lennan,  The Dark Flower opens in 1880 with 18-year-old undergraduate Mark studying art at Oxford, and ends 30 years later with Mark ostensibly happily married, yet torn between his wife and a beautiful teenage girl—the last and most disturbing manifestation of the "dark flower" of passion. Within a dozen pages, Galsworthy establishes his mastery of... (more)
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  The Forsyte Saga, V2

  by John Galsworthy