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The Forsyte Saga

First published: 1906
Pages: 847

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Across three novels and two shorter interludes, John Galsworthy follows the Forsytes, a prosperous English family who measure life by what they own. At the center stands Soames Forsyte, a solicitor who thinks of himself as a man of property and treats even his beautiful wife, Irene, as a possession to be held. Their unhappy marriage sends ripples across a generation, touching questions of love, freedom, class, and the slow decline of Victorian certainties into a new century. Galsworthy writes with a cool, ironic eye, sympathetic and critical at once, and the saga became the work that carried him to the Nobel Prize. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy trained as a barrister but devoted his career to novels, plays, and short fiction about English social life. The Forsyte Saga, the family chronicle singled out when he received the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature, brings together three novels and two interludes.