The Forsyte Saga
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
At the heart of one of English literature's most celebrated family chronicles stands the Forsyte clan — a proud, prosperous, and deeply possessive upper-middle-class dynasty navigating the turbulent social currents of late Victorian and Edwardian England. The Forsyte Saga charts the fortunes and misfortunes of this sprawling family across three interconnected novels — The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let — weaving together themes of ownership, beauty, desire, and the slow collapse of an era, all crystallised in the ill-fated marriage between the cold, acquisitive Soames Forsyte and the captivating Irene, a woman who refuses to be possessed. Nobel Prize-winning author John Galsworthy constructs his saga with the precision of a social anthropologist and the empathy of a humanist, dissecting the English propertied class with unflinching clarity and quiet moral outrage. His prose is measured and elegant, yet charged with an undercurrent of tragedy that builds relentlessly across generations. A landmark of 20th-century British fiction, The Forsyte Saga stands as both a masterful portrait of a vanishing world and a timeless meditation on the price of beauty when it is treated as something that can be owned — leaving the reader to wonder whether any of the Forsytes ever truly understood what they had lost.
Author: John Galsworthy
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
At the heart of one of English literature's most celebrated family chronicles stands the Forsyte clan — a proud, prosperous, and deeply possessive upper-middle-class dynasty navigating the turbulent social currents of late Victorian and Edwardian England. The Forsyte Saga charts the fortunes and misfortunes of this sprawling family across three interconnected novels — The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let — weaving together themes of ownership, beauty, desire, and the slow collapse of an era, all crystallised in the ill-fated marriage between the cold, acquisitive Soames Forsyte and the captivating Irene, a woman who refuses to be possessed. Nobel Prize-winning author John Galsworthy constructs his saga with the precision of a social anthropologist and the empathy of a humanist, dissecting the English propertied class with unflinching clarity and quiet moral outrage. His prose is measured and elegant, yet charged with an undercurrent of tragedy that builds relentlessly across generations. A landmark of 20th-century British fiction, The Forsyte Saga stands as both a masterful portrait of a vanishing world and a timeless meditation on the price of beauty when it is treated as something that can be owned — leaving the reader to wonder whether any of the Forsytes ever truly understood what they had lost.