Another character in this series steals his wife's pearls and moves to South America with his mistress, but sheepishly comes back when he runs out of money.
A character in this series names a baby by pointing his cigar to the Encyclopedia Britannica entry for Cato Publius Valerius. Another character in this series steals his wife's pearls and moves to South America with his mistress, but sheepishly comes back when he runs out of money. In the third novel from this series, a girl drops her handkerchief on purpose to get the attention of her cousin in a pastry shop. A dog howls over the body of his master, who dies peacefully while sleeping on his favorite chair under an old oak-tree, at the end of this series's first (*) interlude, which spans an Indian summer. This series shocked readers with a subplot in which a man punishes his wife for having an affair with the architect of their house Robin Hill by raping her, traumatizing the architect Bosinney so much that he gets run over by a cab and dies. Irene inherits the money of Old Jolyon in this series, which ends with her leaving her jerkass husband Soames. For 10 points, name this series consisting of the novels The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let, a family chronicle by John Galsworthy.
A character in this series names a baby by pointing his cigar to the Encyclopedia Britannica entry for Cato Publius Valerius.
The Forsyte Saga