In Chancery

Name: In Chancery
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: John Galsworthy
ISBN: 9781490625430

Author: John Galsworthy

Series: Forsyte Chronicles #2

Narrator: Neil Hunt

Unabridged: 11 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/18/2014

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

The three novels that make up this trilogy have long been recognized as masterpieces of 20th-century literature, and Galsworthy as one of its leading exponents. But don't let that be the reason you put off listening to this wonderful work. There are passion and lust in these pages, high art and low comedy, and unthinking violence that ride alongside ever-correct manners. Scandal, tragedy, despair, rape, accidental death, marriage, remarriage and a healthy leavening of births all unfold against a rolling backdrop of a world war.

About John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (1867–1933), English novelist and playwright, went to Oxford to study law but turned to literature after he met Joseph Conrad on a voyage. The Man of Property (1906), the first of the Forsyte Chronicles, established his reputation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.) on April 28, 2010

This is a titanic masterpiece of a multi-generational story of a fictional English family that spans the Victorian, Edwardian, and post-World War I eras. For the first one-hundred pages or so, I found myself having to frequently refer to the Forsyte family genealogical chart; however, by the end of......more

Goodreads review by Jola on May 02, 2020

THE FORSYTES REVISITED OR SIPPING CHICKEN SOUP AND SMELLING WARM STRAWBERRIES Rereading the book which you once loved, might be risky. On the one hand, you may repeat a delightful experience. On the other hand, the colours of butterflies, that you felt in your stomach years ago, might have faded away.......more

Goodreads review by Tea on May 09, 2013

Ako ste u prilici odgledajte novu verziju BBC-jeve serije snimljene po ovom romanu, pre nekoliko godina... sjajno je urađenja.........more

Goodreads review by Werner on January 26, 2020

Note, Jan. 26, 2020: I just edited this review to insert an accidentally omitted word in one place. As a kid growing up, my home town only could receive three TV stations (ABC, CBS, NBC). Our part of Iowa got a PBS station in 1968, and one of the first programs I was able to see on it was the BBC min......more