In Chancery

by John Galsworthy · 1920

The Forsyte family's feuds and divorces play out as Soames seeks an heir and old passions resurface.

Books mentioned in In Chancery (5)

• Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant: “one of those “Bel Ami” chaps... he had read that book with difficulty and a sort of disgusted fascination”
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: epigraph attributed — Romeo and Juliet
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “Gibbon's Roman Empire ... were fixed as fate”
• Waverley Novels by Walter Scott: “the Waverley novels and Byron's works and Gibbon's Roman Empire”
• Cosmos by Alexander von Humboldt: “Gibbon's Roman Empire and Humboldt's Cosmos, and the bronzes on the mantelpiece”