~HUMANS~
The Forsyte Saga, Book One

To me, this is a story of Human Feelings that connect all of us. The Forsyte are a tree with many branches sitting in a park of the threes just like theirs: the Owners of Lands and Houses and Wives and the Society in general; but they all are connected to the EARTH from which all feeds and all grows. Thus the feelings, uniting all of us, are not unreachable for them: beauty and pity, love and compassion, companionship and understanding... The desire to POSSES: who does NOT have it? More or less, we all are OWNERS, "men of property", and we want it: it is in our human nature, after all. I feel for Somes. He really did his best with what he got, with what he felt and knew. He is just a human, just like Irene and Bossini. And now...

"A divorce! Thus close, the word was paralyzing, so utterly at variance with all the principles that had hitherto guided his life. Its lack of compromise appalled him; he felt--like the captain of a ship, going to the side of his vessel, and, with his own hands throwing over the most precious of his bales. This jettisoning of his property with his own hand seemed uncanny to Soames. It would injure him in his profession: He would have to get rid of the house at Robin Hill, on which he had spent so much money, so much anticipation--and at a sacrifice. And she! She would no longer belong to him, not even in name! She would pass out of his life, and he--he should never see her again!"

My Mom loves the series and have been telling me for a while now that I should read it. I am glad I finally started. It is a true encyclopaedia on human nature.

Victoria Evangelina Belyavskaya