The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical 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 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.
Geoffrey Harvey is the author of The Romantic Tradition in Modern English Poetry (1986). He is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Reading.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192838629 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192838628 |
| Title | The Forsyte Saga |
| Author | John Galsworthy |
| Series | Oxford World's Classics Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1999-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 902 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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