286 pages
English language
Published Dec. 27, 1969 by Scribner.
The sequel to The Man of Property, published some fourteen years previously, this novel concentrates on the marital failures of Soames Forsyte and to a lesser extent that of his sister Winifred Dartie and on the building antipathy between Soames and his cousin Young Jolyon Forsyte who develops a friendship with Soames' estranged wife Irene. This friendship eventually leads to an affair and Irene's divorce from Soames.
The sequel to The Man of Property, published some fourteen years previously, this novel concentrates on the marital failures of Soames Forsyte and to a lesser extent that of his sister Winifred Dartie and on the building antipathy between Soames and his cousin Young Jolyon Forsyte who develops a friendship with Soames' estranged wife Irene. This friendship eventually leads to an affair and Irene's divorce from Soames.
Subjects
- Forsyte family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction
- Family -- England -- Fiction
- England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction