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The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)

John Galsworthy

Start date: April 1, 2021

Finish date: June 30, 2021

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Apr 08, 2009 Laura rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, mtbr-challenge-2012, family-saga, read-2012, 3ms, classics, victorians

What a splendid family saga written by John Galsworthy.

The book covers the period between 1886 and 1920 and tells the story of the Forsyte's and their struggle to have the most successful life at that time.

This volume is composed by three books: The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let.

The first book describes the life of Soames Forsyte and his wife Irene. However, this marriage will have a lot of troublesome issues along the whole narrative. This will led to dramatic consequences for all For ...more

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Nov 28, 2019 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001-books, read-in-2019, british, classics, class, european, feminism, wealth

The Forsyte Saga is a three volume novel which tells the story of one upper middle class family in England between the years 1886 and 1920. It is a book about class, gender, marriage, social issues and more. The main character, Soames Forsyte is a lawyer who strives to own everything, especially art and his wife, Irene. His marriage fails because of his actions and this has a significant impact on him as well as on his child.

Book one, titled The Man of Property is about their marriage. Soames is ...more

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