{"product_id":"2026100008671-secondhand-the-forsyte-saga","title":"The Forsyte Saga","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\n\nNobel 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342768021723,"sku":"2026100008671-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/bfe59d0c-ef50-460c-a86c-fac95d99905f.png?v=1790048810","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008671-secondhand-the-forsyte-saga","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}