The Forsyte Saga

Description

John Galsworthy’s epic trilogy chronicles the upper-middle class Forsyte family between the years 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife Irene reverberates throughout the saga. Written with both compassion and ironic detachment, Galsworthy’s masterly narrative examines not only the family’s fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women in an intensely competitive male world. Above all, Galsworthy is concerned with the conflict at the heart of English culture between the soulless materialism of wealth and property and the humane instincts of love, beauty, and art. This is the entire three-volume set, Vols I and II published by Heinemann in 1927 and the second volume published in 1938. All are in very good condition.