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Between 1906 and 1921 John Galsworthy published three novels chronicling the Forsyte family, a fictional upper-middle class family at the end of the Victorian era: The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let. In 1922 Galsworthy wrote two interconnecting short stories to bind the three novels together and published the whole as The Forsyte Saga.
While the novels follow the Forsyte family at large, the action centers around Soames Forsyte—the scion of a nouveau-riche London tea merchant—his wife Irene, and their unhappy marriage. Soames and his sprawling family are portrayed as stereotypes of unhappy gilded-age wealth, their family having entered the industrial revolution poor farmers and emerged as wealthy bourgeoise. Their rise was powered by their capacity to acquire, won at the expense of their capacity for almost anything else.
Thematically, the saga focuses on the mores of the wealthy upper-middle class, which was still a newish feature in the class landscape of England at the time; duty, honor, and love; and the rapidly growing differences across generations occurring in a period of war and social change. The characters are complex and nuanced, and the situations they find themselves in—both of their own making, and of the making of society around them—provide a rich field for analyzing the close of the Victorian age, the dawn of the Edwardian age, and the societal frameworks that were forged in that frisson.
Galsworthy went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932 for The Forsyte Saga, one of the rare occasions in which the Swedish Academy has awarded a prize for a specific work instead of for a lifetime of work.
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Table of Contents Titlepage Imprint Dedication Preface The Forsyte Saga Book I: The Man of Property Epigraph Dedication Part I I: “At Home” at Old Jolyon’s II: Old Jolyon Goes to the Opera III: Dinner at Swithin’s IV: Projection of the House V: A Forsyte Ménage VI: James at Large VII: Old Jolyon’s Peccadillo VIII: Plans of the House IX: Death of Aunt Ann Part II I: Progress of the House II: June’s Treat III: Drive with Swithin IV: James Goes to See for Himself V: Soames and Bosinney Correspond VI: Old Jolyon at the Zoo VII: Afternoon at Timothy’s VIII: Dance at Roger’s IX: Evening at Richmond X: Diagnosis of a Forsyte XI: Bosinney on Parole XII: June Pays Some Calls XIII: Perfection of the House XIV: Soames Sits on the Stairs Part III I: Mrs. Macander’s Evidence II: Night in the Park III: Meeting at the Botanical IV: Voyage Into the Inferno V: The Trial VI: Soames Breaks the News VII: June’s Victory VIII: Bosinney’s Departure IX: Irene’s Return Interlude: Indian Summer of a Forsyte Epigraph Dedication I II III IV V Book II: In Chancery Epigraph Dedication Part I I: At Timothy’s II: Exit a Man of the World III: Soames Prepares to Take Steps IV: Soho V: James Sees Visions VI: No-Longer-Young Jolyon at Home VII: The Colt and the Filly VIII: Jolyon Prosecutes Trusteeship IX: Val Hears the News X: Soames Entertains the Future XI: And Visits the Past XII: On Forsyte ’Change XIII: Jolyon Finds Out Where He Is XIV: Soames Discovers What He Wants Part II I: The Third Generation II: Soames Puts It to the Touch III: Visit to Irene IV: Where Forsytes Fear to Tread V: Jolly Sits in Judgment VI: Jolyon in Two Minds VII: Dartie Versus Dartie VIII: The Challenge IX: Dinner at James’ X: Death of the Dog Balthasar XI: Timothy Stays the Rot XII: Progress of the Chase XIII: “Here We Are Again!” XIV: Outlandish Night Part III I: Soames in Paris II: In the Web III: Richmond Park IV: Over the River V: Soames Acts VI: A Summer Day VII: A Summer Night VIII: James in Waiting IX: Out of the Web X: Passing of an Age XI: Suspended Animation XII: Birth of a Forsyte XIII: James Is Told XIV: His Awakening Dedication Awakening Book III: To Let Epigraph Dedication Part I I: Encounter II: Fine Fleur Forsyte III: At Robin Hill IV: The Mausoleum V: The Native Heath VI: Jon VII: Fleur VIII: Idyll on Grass IX: Goya X: Trio XI: Duet XII: Caprice Part II I: Mother and Son II: Fathers and Daughters III: Meetings IV: In Green Street V: Purely Forsyte Affairs VI: Soames’ Private Life VII: June Takes a Hand VIII: The Bit Between the Teeth IX: The Fat in the Fire X: Decision XI: Timothy Prophesies Part III I: Old Jolyon Walks II: Confession III: Irene IV: Soames Cogitates V: The Fixed Idea VI: Desperate VII: Embassy VIII: The Dark Tune IX: Under the Oak-Tree X: Fleur’s Wedding XI: The Last of the Old Forsytes Colophon Uncopyright ImprintThis ebook is the product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard Ebooks, and builds on the hard work of other literature lovers made possible by the public domain.
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To
my wife
I dedicate the Forsyte Saga
in its entirety,
believing it to be of all my works
the least unworthy of one
without whose encouragement, sympathy,
and criticism
I could never have become even
such a writer as I am.
The Forsyte Saga was the title originally destined for that part of it which is called The Man of Property; and to adopt it for the collected chronicles of the Forsyte family has indulged the Forsytean tenacity that is in all of us. The word “saga” might be objected to on the ground that it connotes the heroic and that there is little heroism in these pages. But it is used with a suitable irony; and, after all, this long tale, though it may deal with folk in frock coats, furbelows, and a gilt-edged period, is not devoid of the essential heat of conflict. Discounting for the gigantic stature and bloodthirstiness of old days, as they have come down to us in fairytale and legend, the folk of the old sagas were Forsytes, assuredly, in their possessive instincts, and as little proof against the inroads of beauty and
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