The Forsyte Saga chronicles 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. In this, the first of three novels, he pursues the beautiful Irene, who finally agrees to marry him. But Irene balks at her husband's controlling rigidity and falls in love with an architect hired by Soames to build his country house.
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The Forsyte Saga chronicles 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. In this, the first of three novels, he pursues the beautiful Irene, who finally agrees to marry him. But Irene balks at her husband's controlling rigidity and falls in love with an architect hired by Soames to build his country house.
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This is the Galsworthy novel to get. The fragile marriage of Soames and Irene and the Tragic romance of June are just a few of the troubles in an upper middle class family. This is an interesting book since there are no heroes or villians. All the characters are flawed still having good in them. The characters are real people with real problems that can be found even in today's culture. This is a rather sad book so readers who wish for a happy ending might be disapointed. Its tough to declare any ending happy since there are no villians to foil.
