In Chancery: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

In Chancery, credited to John Galsworthy, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of In Chancery by John Galsworthy. Read in English by Peter Dann. For a late Victorian Briton, to be "in chancery" could mean literally to be involved in a law suit (such as, for example, a divorce suit) being heard in a Court of Chancery, or, more broadly, to be trapped in any awkward predicament almost impossible to untangle (as law suits heard in the Court of Chancery often tended to be). In this, the second volume of The Forsyte Saga, wealthy lawyer Soames Forsyte struggles to free himself from a situation he finds almost impossibly awkward, given the divorce laws of his time. Though it is now a dozen or so years since he and his wife Irene split up, they have never divorced. Soames is now desperate to have a son. What can he do? He knows that Irene is now keeping company with his cousin Jolyon. Can he persuade her to come back to him? Or should he, instead, take the risky course of attempting to prove to the world that the woman he still aches after is an adulteress, publicly shame her and divorce her, and marry a pretty French woman half his age in hopes that she will bear him the son he craves? (Summary by Peter Dann)

Recording facts

• Recording title: In Chancery
• Author credits: John Galsworthy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 47
• Listed recording duration: 11:42:30

Catalogue topics

• domestic fiction
• women -- england -- fiction
• england -- social life and customs -- 19th century -- fiction
• middle class -- england -- fiction
• england -- social life and customs -- 20th century -- fiction
• forsyte family (fictitious characters) -- fiction
• families -- england -- fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 47

1. 01 - Indian Summer of a Forstye: 1 — 38:33
2. 02 - Indian Summer of a Forstye: 2 — 14:49
3. 03 - Indian Summer of a Forstye: 3 — 19:04
4. 04 - Indian Summer of a Forstye: 4 — 12:21
5. 05 - Indian Summer of a Forstye: 5 — 29:43
6. 06 - At Timothy's — 21:05
7. 07 - Exit a man of the world — 26:40
8. 08 - Soames prepares to take steps — 11:45
9. 09 - Soho — 14:44
10. 10 - James sees visions — 12:48
11. 11 - No longer young Jolyon at home — 21:50
12. 12 - The colt and the filly — 10:49
13. 13 - Jolyon prosecutes trusteeship — 15:45
14. 14 - Val hears the news — 17:20
15. 15 - Soames entertains the future — 9:21
16. 16 - And visits the past — 11:51
17. 17 - On Forsyte 'change — 23:32
18. 18 - Jolyon finds out where he is — 12:15
19. 19 - Soames discovers what he wants — 7:35
20. 20 - The third generation — 18:58
21. 21 - Soames puts it to the touch — 19:26
22. 22 - Visit to Irene — 12:09
23. 23 - Where Forsytes fear to tread — 15:33
24. 24 - Jolly sits in judgement — 17:53

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