- Mass Market Paperback: 912 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classic; New edition edition (Jan 2 1991)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 014018399X
- ISBN-13: 978-0140183993
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.2 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 23 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,062,409 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife Irene reverberates throughout the saga. Written with both compassion and ironic detachment, Galsworthy's narrative examines not only the family's fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women in an intensely competitive male world. Above all, Galsworthy is concerned with the conflict at the heart of English culture between the soulless materialism of wealth and property and the humane instincts of love, beauty, and art.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's very interesting book,
By A Customer
This review is from: 20th Century Forsyte Saga (Mass Market Paperback)
I want to have this book and I dream to have it
5.0 out of 5 stars
Could Not Put It Down,
By Portianay "portianay" (KY, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 20th Century Forsyte Saga (Mass Market Paperback)
Yes, it is lengthy, and yes, it suspends reality on the subject of Irene's ability to cause the Forsyte men to fall in love with her; nevertheless, I am hooked, and will be so sorry when these last fifty pages are read!If you want to read a generational story that does not include lots of steamy or bloody scenes, but rather mentions them in passing, this is the one for you. True, once or twice I have wished there had been more discussion: people's reactions to trysyts, to deaths, to surprises... but taken as a whole, the book really does strike the note that time swallows, or at least blurs, so much familial pain. Read the book. If you are watching the Masterpiece Theatre produciton, the book will matter to you even more. And yes, the book is better! Though the actor who portrays Soames is pretty yum, in real life!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Too much infidelity and family drama,
By A Customer
This review is from: 20th Century Forsyte Saga (Mass Market Paperback)
According to the publisher, this book is a satire of monied English family at the turn of 1900's. Monied Soames Forsyte was "offered" a marriage by the beautiful (so much so that all Forsyte men fall for her at varying degree) Irene who had none. Well, Irene as rebellious as beautiful, might I add self centered as much, leaves Soames to be with her lover. Her lover happenes to be her niece's (by marriage)fiancee. He, Bosinney, ends up being killed by an accident so she comes back to Soames for a short period of time. She leaves her married life but she happened to meet up with a charmed uncle(by marriage) who settles a handsome inheritance. Now next is the uncle's son (old Jolyon and the son young Jolyon), who had committed himself an affair with the governess while married with a daughter, falls for Irene and so they become lovers....How could have this went on -ever!- in anyone's life time, in England or anywhere else. This story demoralizes human society and makes people without sympathy and forgiveness. Least of all, the ending line is very dark, that a person wishing and wishing can never get: beauty and loving. Did not enjoy the book, frustrated with the dvd/video, I will settle with "The Aristocrats."
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