TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Galsworthy,John
TI  -  The Forsyte saga 
T2  -  The Forsyte chronicles ; 
SN  -  014018399X
AV  -  PR6013.A5   F56 1978
U1  -  823/.912   21
PY  - 1978///
CY  -  London ; ,  New York : 
PB  -  Penguin Books, 
KW  -  Forsyte family (Fictitious characters)
KW  -  Fiction
KW  -  Middle class
KW  -  England
KW  -  Domestic fiction, English
KW  -  Families
KW  -  Social life and customs
KW  -  19th century
N1  -  The man of property -- In chancery -- To let
N2  - 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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