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Swang [sic] song

The "man of property", Soames Forsyte, has mellowed unto a patient and benign figure, guarding with especial tenderness the welfare of his daughter, Fleur. But all his watchfulness and devotion are powerless to avert tragedy when Fleur revives her old love affair with Jon Forsyte on Jon's return to England with his American wife.

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  • "The "man of property", Soames Forsyte, has mellowed unto a patient and benign figure, guarding with especial tenderness the welfare of his daughter, Fleur. But all his watchfulness and devotion are powerless to avert tragedy when Fleur revives her old love affair with Jon Forsyte on Jon's return to England with his American wife."@en
  • "When Jon Forsyte returns to England with his American wife, Fleur deliberately revives her old affair with him."@en
  • "John Galsworthy devoted his entire career to creating a fictional family of propertied Victorians. He made their lives and times, loves and losses, fortunes and deaths so real that readers accused him of including individuals they knew."@en
  • "In his old age, Soames Forsyte has mellowed into a patient and benign figure, guarding with especial tenderness the welfare of his daughter, Fleur. But all his watchfulness and devotion are powerless to avert the tragedy when Fleur revives her old love affair with Jon Forsyte."@en
  • "Book 6 continues the story of Soames and his daughter Fleur. Fleur, seemingly happily settled with her husband Michael and son Christopher, has her loyalties tested when her old love, Jon Forsyte, returns to England after seven years absence."
  • "John Galsworthy devoted his entire career to creating a ficional family of propertied Victorians. He made their lives and times, love and losses, fortunes and deaths so real that readers accused him of including individuals whom they knew."@en
  • "Swan Song is the conclusion of the second trilogy in the Forsyte Chronicles, which is called A Modern Comedy. In this novel the "man of property," Soames Forsyte, has mellowed with the passing of the years until, in his old age, he is a patient and benign figure, guarding with especial tenderness the welfare of his daughter, Fleur. But all his watchfulness and devotion are powerless to avert tragedy when Fleur revives her old love affair with Jon Forsyte on Jon's return to England with his American wife."@en
  • "Swan Song is the sixth of the nine novels in The Forsyte Chronicles and the conclusion of the second trilogy, which is called A Modern Comedy. John Galsworthy's epic story of the moneyed Forsyte family is a fascinating study of the British propertied class during the decline of the Victorian age. The "man of property," Soames Forsyte, has mellowed with the passing of the years until, in his old age, he is a patient and benign figure, guarding with especial tenderness the welfare of his daughter, Fleur. But all his watchfulness and devotion are powerless to avert tragedy when Fleur revives her old love affair with Jon Forsyte on Jon's return to England with his American wife."@en

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  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Family chronicles"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Epic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en

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  • "Swang [sic] song"@en
  • "Swan song"@en
  • "Swan song"
  • "Swan Song, by John Galsworthy"

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