Second chronicle

A fortnight or so ago I reported getting towards the end of the three volumes of  'The Forsyte Saga' (reference 1).

I can now report getting to the end of the second chronicle - 'A Modern Comedy'. Attentive readers will remember that we have three chronicles, each made up of three volumes, volumes separated one from another by two interludes. Say 850 pages in two weeks, not bad going, even allowing for a bit of speed reading.

A better read than I had expected, in the course of which the villain of the first chronicle, Soames Forsyte, has become the hero of the second, his various personal faults and foibles coming to seem unimportant in the long run. Much being made of his honesty, intelligence and straight dealing; a man you could trust with your family trust. Mostly forgetting that the man is also a solicitor in the family firm which made pots of money out of other people's problems and out of making other people's property their own.

The third chronicle has yet to turn up from the library, so there must someone else out there trudging through. In the meantime, I wonder whether I will manage this third chronicle, the second having come to a clear-cut natural end. But then, Trollope managed well enough with his loose knit series of novels, so why not Galsworthy?

Reference 1: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/08/interlude.html.