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Джон Голсуорси. Лучшее из «Саги о Форсайтах» / The Best of The Forsyte Saga
The Man of Property
Part I
Chapter I ‘At Home’ at Old Jolyon’s
Chapter II. Old Jolyon Goes to the Opera
Chapter III. Dinner at Swithin’s
Chapter IV. Projection of the House
Chapter V. A Forsyte Menage
Chapter VI. James at Large
Chapter VII. Old Jolyon’s Peccadillo
Chapter VIII. Plans of the House
Chapter IX. Death of Aunt Ann
Part II
Chapter I. Progress of the House
Chapter II. June’s Treat
Chapter III. Drive with Swithin
Chapter IV. James Goes to See for Himself
Chapter V. Soames and Bosinney Correspond
Chapter VI. Old Jolyon at the Zoo
Chapter VII. Afternoon at Timothy’s
Chapter VIII. Dance at Roger’s
Chapter IX. Evening at Richmond
Chapter X. Diagnosis of a Forsyte
Chapter XI. Bosinney on Parole
Chapter XII. June Pays Some Calls
Chapter XIII. Perfection of the House
Chapter XIV. Soames Sits on the Stairs
Part III
Chapter I. Mrs. 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
Indian Summer of a Forsyte
I
II
III
IV
In Chancery
Part I
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
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Those privileged to be present at a family festival of the Forsytes have seen that charming and instructive sight – an upper middle-class family in full plumage. But whosoever of these favoured persons has possessed the gift of psychological analysis (a talent without monetary value and properly ignored by the Forsytes), has witnessed a spectacle, not only delightful in itself, but illustrative of an obscure human problem. In plainer words, he has gleaned from a gathering of this family – no branch of which had a liking for the other, between no three members of whom existed anything worthy of the name of sympathy – evidence of that mysterious concrete tenacity which renders a family so formidable a unit of society, so clear a reproduction of society in miniature. He has been admitted to a vision of the dim roads of social progress, has understood something of patriarchal life, of the swarmings of savage hordes, of the rise and fall of nations. He is like one who, having watched a tree grow from its planting – a paragon of tenacity, insulation, and success, amidst the deaths of a hundred other plants less fibrous, sappy, and persistent – one day will see it flourishing with bland, full foliage, in an almost repugnant prosperity, at the summit of its efflorescence.
On June 15, eighteen eighty-six, about four of the afternoon, the observer who chanced to be present at the house of old Jolyon Forsyte in Stanhope Gate, might have seen the highest efflorescence of the Forsytes.
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Like the enlightened thousands of his class and generation in this great city of London, who no longer believe in red velvet chairs, and know that groups of modern Italian marble are ‘vieux jeu,’ Soames Forsyte inhabited a house which did what it could. It owned a copper door knocker of individual design, windows which had been altered to open outwards, hanging flower boxes filled with fuchsias, and at the back (a great feature) a little court tiled with jade-green tiles, and surrounded by pink hydrangeas in peacock-blue tubs. Here, under a parchment-coloured Japanese sunshade covering the whole end, inhabitants or visitors could be screened from the eyes of the curious while they drank tea and examined at their leisure the latest of Soames’s little silver boxes.
The inner decoration favoured the First Empire and William Morris[14]. For its size, the house was commodious; there were countless nooks resembling birds’ nests, and little things made of silver were deposited like eggs.
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