19. Soames, my possessive husband, wanted to own me but instead drove me into the arms of another man in the first volume of which series of novels?
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Answer:
The Forsyte Saga
If not for the grace of God, I could have been Irene Forsyte. 'The Forsyte Saga' comprised five novels, published between 1906 and 1921, written by John Galsworthy. The first book, called 'A Man of Property', was focused on Soames Forsyte, who treated his wife, Irene, as one of his possessions, even to the extent of forcing himself upon her sexually. His plan to hide her in the country, so only he can see her, backfired when she fell in love with the architect designing the country house and left Soames following his brutality to her.
'The Chronicles of Barsetshire' were written by Anthony Trollope in the late nineteenth century. 'Brideshead Revisited' was by Evelyn Waugh and published in 1945 while 'The Ballantyne Novels', written by Wilbur Smith, were much later, coming out in the 1980s.