To Let (Forsyte Saga Vol. 3)
John Galsworthy
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‘The Forsyte Saga’ is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties.
To Let is the third and final book in the saga (although Galsworthy later published two further trilogies which extend the story). We are now in 1920, about twenty years since Irene married Young Jolyon and gave birth to John and since Soames married Annette, who gave him a daughter, Fleur. The two sides of the family have not met since those times and John and Fleur do not even know of each other’s existence.
All the old Forsytes are dead except for Timothy. Val and Holly have returned from South Africa and Val is training racehorses in Sussex. June has opened her gallery near Cork Street.
Soames arranges to meet Fleur at June’s gallery and while there, and again later in a patisserie, they see Irene and Jon. Soames ignores them but Fleur and Jon are attracted to one another at a distance.
As they leave, Fleur drops her handkerchief... (Summary by Andy Minter) (11 hr 26 min)
Chapters
| The Awakening | 58:48 | Read by eva |
| 1:1 Encounter | 38:07 | Read by Lee Ann Howlett |
| 1:2 Fine Fleur Forsyte | 15:27 | Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017) |
| 1:3 At Robin Hill | 19:52 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 1:4 The Mausoleum | 22:06 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 1:5 The Native Heath | 19:50 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 1:6 Jon | 11:04 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 1:7 Fleur | 13:25 | Read by Lee Ann Howlett |
| 1:8 Idyll on Grass | 7:49 | Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017) |
| 1:9 Goya | 25:45 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 1:10 Trio | 13:46 | Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017) |
| 1:11 Duet | 13:40 | Read by Lee Ann Howlett |
| 1:12 Caprice | 20:23 | Read by Lee Ann Howlett |
| 2:1 Mother and Son | 16:02 | Read by eva |
| 2:2 Fathers and Daughters | 43:00 | Read by eva |
| 2:3 Meetings | 22:28 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 2:4 In Green Street | 13:57 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 2:5 Purely Forsyte Affairs | 15:52 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 2:6 Soames’ Private life | 23:27 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 2:7 June Takes a Hand | 11:53 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 2:8 The Bit Between the Teeth | 14:13 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 2:9 The Fat in the Fire | 18:06 | Read by Lee Ann Howlett |
| 2:10 Decision | 9:19 | Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017) |
| 2:11 Timothy Prophesies | 26:46 | Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017) |
| 3:1 Old Jolyon Walks | 21:07 | Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017) |
| 3:2 Confession | 16:02 | Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017) |
| 3:3 Irene | 10:50 | Read by Lee Ann Howlett |
| 3:4 Soames Cogitates | 14:25 | Read by Lee Ann Howlett |
| 3:5 The Fixed Idea | 12:24 | Read by eva |
| 3:6 Desperate | 25:05 | Read by eva |
| 3:7 Embassy | 19:44 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 3:8 The Dark Tune | 12:54 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 3:9 Under the Oak Tree | 6:23 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 3:10 Fleur’s Wedding | 24:25 | Read by Simon Evers |
| 3:11 The Last of the Old Forsytes | 28:00 | Read by Simon Evers |
Reviews
A masterpiece
A.G. Johnson
Galsworthy is a treasure to discover over and over again in his masterwork: The Forsyte Saga very well delivered by the excellent generous readers of the text so diligently delivered. Thank you! AG Johnson
ellene
Masterpiece
It doesn’t get any better than this. Many thanks for the wonderful job done by the readers in this final book of the Forsyte Saga
arwei
Wonderful book! All the readers were excellent except one with a strong foreign accent.
Good story.
A LibriVox Listener
Some excellent readers. One endurable. Thanks to all. .