Author: John Galsworthy
Year: 1921
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Classic, Historical fiction, Romance
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9780486434070
9780192838629
0486434079
0192838628 |
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The three novels which make up
chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 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 their 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.
--from the back cover
This book is part of the "The Forsyte Chronicles" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Maid in Waiting"
First published in 1931
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 | "The Man of Property"
First published in 1906
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