The propertied Forsyte family's values are shaken by Soames Forsyte's disastrous marriage, opening the Forsyte Saga.
Books mentioned in The Man of Property (4)
Paradise Lost by John Milton: “There was nobody who could write a poem like “Paradise Lost,” or “Childe Harold””
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron: “a poem like “Paradise Lost,” or “Childe Harold”; either of which made you feel that you really had read something”
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare: ““You will answer / The slaves are ours” —Merchant of Venice (epigraph)”
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: ““Why, you’re quite a Monte Cristo!” This celebrated novel—one of the half-dozen he had read”