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The Forsyte Saga Volume 1

Author
John Galsworthy
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
10 hours 35 minutes
ISBN
9781836104025
Published
30 April 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • England
  • Edwardian era
  • social change
  • inheritance disputes
  • emotional repression
  • class values

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Description

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy follows the fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte family across generations in late Victorian and Edwardian England. It explores their fixation on property, status, and control, centering on Soames Forsyte and others whose private desires clash with duty and social expectation. As relationships fracture and society evolves, the saga reveals the decline of rigid class values and the emotional cost of possession and pride.

Author

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) helped shape the English novel's passage from Victorian certainties to twentieth-century doubt. A barrister who turned to literature in his thirties, he wrote with an insider's knowledge of the leisured classes and a reformer's impatience with their complacency. The Forsyte Saga made him famous — a multi-generational study of money, marriage, and the hunger to own.

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