The Forsyte Saga & A Modern Comedy - John Galsworthy

The famous saga of the Forsyte family, up to the death of Soames, is here beautifully presented in one volume. John Galsworthy published the first book "The Man of Property" in 1906. It is a finely wrought story, told in a quietly ironic tone of a family feud arising, as he himself put it 'of disturbing Beauty impinging on a possessive world.' Soames Forsyte was a character that readers found difficult to forget. The sequel "In Chancery", published in 1920 was rapidly followed by "To Let", by which time the Saga was well under way and already a resounding success. The fortunes of this most famous of fictional families have made compulsive reading ever since. Three further novels "The white Monkey", "The Silver Spoon" and "Swan Song" are included in this book. The stories are closely knit and gather strength for this reason, so that readers will eagerly await new events in the lives of characters so well known they might be alive. Galsworthy's portrayal of the middle class world is astonishingly complete, observed so closely as it is with his ironic, slightly mocking, but not unsympathetic eye.

ISBN: 0706405722

Pages: 1052

Hardcover with dustjacket

Heinemann/Octopus, 1976

First edition

Good condition

B158