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| Author | John Galsworthy |
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| Country | Great Britain |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Forsyte Saga |
| Genre | Novel |
| Preceded by | The Man of Property |
| Followed by | To Let |
In Chancery is the second novel of the Forsyte Saga trilogy by John Galsworthy and was originally published in 1920, some fourteen years after The Man of Property . Like its predecessor it focuses on the personal affairs of a wealthy upper middle class English family.
The novel concentrates on the marital failures of Soames Forsyte and to a lesser extent that of his sister Winifred Dartie and on the building antipathy between Soames and his cousin Young Jolyon Forsyte who develops a friendship with Soames' estranged wife Irene. This friendship eventually leads to an affair and Irene's divorce from Soames.
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