フォーサイト家の物語 — ジョン・ゴールズワージー
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Title : The Forsyte Saga - Complete Author : John Galsworthy Release date : June 14, 2006 [eBook #4397] Most recently updated: February 24, 2026 Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4397 Credits : Produced by David Widger *** START OF MACANDER’S EVIDENCE CHAPTER II—NIGHT IN THE PARK CHAPTER III—MEETING AT THE BOTANICAL CHAPTER IV—VOYAGE INTO THE INFERNO CHAPTER V—THE TRIAL CHAPTER VI—SOAMES BREAKS THE NEWS CHAPTER VII—JUNE’S VICTORY CHAPTER VIII—BOSINNEY’S DEPARTURE CHAPTER IX—IRENE’S RETURN THE FORSYTE SAGA—VOLUME II INDIAN SUMMER OF A FORSYTE I II III IV V IN CHANCERY PART 1 CHAPTER I—AT TIMOTHY’S CHAPTER II—EXIT A MAN OF THE WORLD CHAPTER III—SOAMES PREPARES TO TAKE STEPS CHAPTER IV—SOHO CHAPTER V—JAMES SEES VISIONS CHAPTER VI—NO-LONGER-YOUNG JOLYON AT HOME CHAPTER VII—THE COLT AND THE FILLY CHAPTER VIII—JOLYON PROSECUTES TRUSTEESHIP CHAPTER IX—VAL HEARS THE NEWS CHAPTER X—SOAMES ENTERTAINS THE FUTURE CHAPTER XI—AND VISITS THE PAST CHAPTER XII—ON FORSYTE ’CHANGE CHAPTER XIII—JOLYON FINDS OUT WHERE HE IS CHAPTER XIV—SOAMES DISCOVERS WHAT HE WANTS PART II CHAPTER I—THE THIRD GENERATION CHAPTER II—SOAMES PUTS IT TO THE TOUCH CHAPTER III—VISIT TO IRENE CHAPTER IV—WHERE FORSYTES FEAR TO TREAD CHAPTER V—JOLLY SITS IN JUDGMENT CHAPTER VI—JOLYON IN TWO MINDS CHAPTER VII—DARTIE VERSUS DARTIE CHAPTER VIII—THE CHALLENGE CHAPTER IX—DINNER AT JAMES’ CHAPTER X—DEATH OF THE DOG BALTHASAR CHAPTER XI—TIMOTHY STAYS THE ROT CHAPTER XII—PROGRESS OF THE CHASE CHAPTER XIII—“HERE WE ARE AGAIN!” CHAPTER XIV—OUTLANDISH NIGHT PART III CHAPTER I—SOAMES IN PARIS CHAPTER II—IN THE WEB CHAPTER III—RICHMOND PARK CHAPTER IV—OVER THE RIVER CHAPTER V—SOAMES ACTS CHAPTER VI—A SUMMER DAY CHAPTER VII—A SUMMER NIGHT CHAPTER VIII—JAMES IN WAITING CHAPTER IX—OUT OF THE WEB CHAPTER X—PASSING OF AN AGE CHAPTER XI—SUSPENDED ANIMATION CHAPTER XII—BIRTH OF A FORSYTE CHAPTER XIII—JAMES IS TOLD CHAPTER XIV—HIS AWAKENING TO LET PART I I.—ENCOUNTER II.—FINE FLEUR FORSYTE III.—AT ROBIN HILL IV.—THE MAUSOLEUM V.—THE NATIVE HEATH VI.—JON VII.—FLEUR VIII.—IDYLL ON GRASS IX. GOYA X.—TRIO XI.—DUET XII.—CAPRICE PART II I.—MOTHER AND SON II.—FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS III.—MEETINGS IV.—IN GREEN STREET V.—PURELY FORSYTE AFFAIRS VI.—SOAMES’ PRIVATE LIFE VII.—JUNE TAKES A HAND VIII.—THE BIT BETWEEN THE TEETH IX.—THE FAT IN THE FIRE X.—DECISION XI.—TIMOTHY PROPHESIES PART III I.—OLD JOLYON WALKS II.—CONFESSION III.—IRENE IV.—SOAMES COGITATES V.—THE FIXED IDEA VI.—DESPERATE VII.—EMBASSY VIII.—THE DARK TUNE IX.—UNDER THE OAK-TREE X.—FLEUR’S WEDDING XI.—THE LAST OF THE OLD FORSYTES Volumes Volume 1. The Man of Property Volume 2. Indian Summer of a Forsyte, and In Chancery Volume 3. Awakening, and To Let THE MAN OF PROPERTY TO MY WIFE: I DEDICATE THE FORSYTE SAGA IN ITS ENTIRETY, BELIEVING IT TO BE OF ALL MY WORKS THE LEAST UNWORTHY OF ONE WITHOUT WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT, SYMPATHY AND CRITICISM I COULD NEVER HAVE BECOME EVEN SUCH A WRITER AS I AM. PREFACE: “The Forsyte Saga” was the title originally destined for that part of it which is called “The Man of Property”; and to adopt it for the collected chronicles of the Forsyte family has indulged the Forsytean tenacity that is in all of us. The word Saga might be objected to on the ground that it connotes the heroic and that there is little heroism in these pages. But it is used with a suitable irony; and, after all, this long tale, though it may deal with folk in frock coats, furbelows, and a gilt-edged period, is not devoid of the essential heat of conflict. Discounting for the gigantic stature and blood-thirstiness of old days, as they have come down to us in fairy-tale and legend, the folk of the old Sagas were Forsytes, assuredly, in their possessive instincts, and as little proof against the inroads of beauty and passion as Swithin, Soames, or even Young Jolyon. And if heroic figures, in days that never were, seem to startle out from their surroundings in fashion unbecoming to a Forsyte of the Victorian era, we may be sure that tribal instinct was even then the prime force, and that “family” and the sense of home and property counted as they do to this day, for all the recent efforts to “talk them out.” So many people have written and claimed that their families were the originals of the Forsytes that one has been almost encouraged to believe in the typicality of an imagined species. Manners change and modes evolve, and “Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road” becomes a nest of the unbelievable in all except essentials; we shall not look upon its like again, nor perhaps on such a one as James or Old Jolyon. And yet the figures of Insurance Societies and the utterances of Judges reassure us daily that our earthly paradise is still a rich preserve, where the wild raiders, Beauty and Passion, come stealing in, filching security from beneath our noses. As surely as a dog will bark at a brass band, so will the essential Soames in human nature ever rise up uneasily against the dissolution which hovers round the folds of ownership. “Let the dead Past bury its dead” would be a better saying if the Past ever died. The persistence of the Past is one of those tragi-comic blessings which each new age denies, coming cocksure on to the stage to mouth its claim to a perfect novelty. But no Age is so new as that! Human Nature, under its changing pretensions and clothes, is and ever will be very much of a Forsyte, and might, after all, be a much worse animal. Looking back on the Victorian era, whose ripeness, decline, and “fall-of” is in some sort pictured in “The Forsyte Saga,” we see now that we have but jumped out of a frying-pan into a fire. It would be difficult to substantiate a claim that the case