The Forsyte Saga, Volume I (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

from Kristelh

This is the story of the Forsytes of England during the Victorian, Edwardian, and post WWI years and specifically about Soames' marriage to Irene and how it affects the whole family for several generations. It is an interesting look at a family but also about a historical time and changes that oc...

from Renz0808

"Was there anything, indeed, more tragic in the world than a man enslaved by his own possessive instinct, who couldn't see the sky for it, or even enter fully into what another person felt!" This has to be my favorite line of the whole book which was thought by young Jolyon Forsyte about his trag...

from jayne_charles

One of those turn-of-the-century novels that feels as though it was written much later. There is a lightness of touch, a preoccupation with interesting events and situations rather than flowery description. Soames is an excellent character; we first encounter him trying to 'look through his own n...

from xieouyang

I really enjoyed this novel. It has a very rich writing style. Rich in the use of language. Rich in the variety of characters and personalities and their interaction. Rich in the plot itself. The novel traces the lives and travails of three generations of an English family residing in London at t...

from hemlokgang

I just finished the book recently and have wanted to mull it over. I think this book is a genuine masterpiece because of Galsworthy's fabulous aiblity to reflect societal change in a single family tree. As society shifts, so do the Forsytes, at lest the newer generation at the time. Galsworthy's ...