The Forsyte Saga: "Man of Property", "In Chancery", "To Let" (Penguin Modern Classics) Penguin Books ( 29 March, 2001 ) Book Our Price : £ 7.69 List Price : £ 10.99 You save £3.3 (30% off) Prices subject to change. usually dispatched within 24 hours.

Thoroughly recommended

This is a terrific read, and has some of that mysterious alchemy which typifies the real page turner - as opposed to those books you just slog through because you want to get to the end. There are many more Forsytes than in the recent excellent television adaptation, but Galsworthy is extremely skilled at bringing them in and out of focus and reminding you who is who, as his narrative requires. If you do get confused, there is a useful (and witty) family tree at the front of the book, but be careful: you might find out who gets married and who dies before you want to. In its use of late Victorian and early Edwardian slang, it is fascinating (who knew for example, that attractive in the sexual/aesthetic sense attained that usage c.1890 and was no longer felt to be current by 1920?). Soames must be one of the great characters of modern fiction - mousing along on the shady side of the street - since he is simultaneously reprehensible, forlorn and rather tragic. A number of the scenes featuring confrontations between him and Irene seem to me to be as rivetingly dramatic as those between Angelo and Isabella in Measure for Measure. What a relief to read a book that has not been introduced and annotated to death. True, there is the odd sentence which is so steeped in the time it was written as to be difficult to decipher, but this is more than balanced out by the lack of distraction - no irritating scattering of asterisks! - as well as by a real sense of the past set before us, strange and partly unfamiliar as it should be.

Waste of money

one hour of my life wasted. Easy to get through but no substance. Not worth reading.

Buying a property in spain

If you,like me are considering buying a property in spain,either for permenant living (as i am)or soley for holidays and rental purposes buy and read this book before you do anything else. The book deals with all aspects of buying and all the legal side of a purchase in spain, and all the strange spainsh laws that us English do not understand,such as checking that the property has no debts attatched to it or if you buy and it has YOU are responsable for them. This book is well written,and in most part (not the law side)very easy to understand ,and has informed me of a lot of things i did not know which is very valuable when you are spending a lot of your hard earned cash on a purchase in a different contry with such uncommon laws,i would highly recommend this book if you are considering a place in the sun.