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  • Paperback: 896 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (19 Jan 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743245024
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743245029
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.5 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical 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 masterly 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. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Geoffrey Harvey is Senior Lecturer in English at Reading University. He is also the editor of Trollope's Mr Scarborough's Family, The Bertrams, and Marion Fay in World's Classics. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous family saga again, as good as Vols 1 and 2, 6 Mar 2002
By R. S. Stanier "Robert Stanier" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Forsyte Saga : Volume 3 (Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness and Over the River): "Maid in Waiting", "Flowering Wilderness", "Over the River" v. 3 (Paperback)
Soames and Jolyon are long dead, Irene is out of the picture, Fleur and Michael are just bit parts, but Volume Three still stands up in comparison with the earlier parts of the saga. It may be even better.
A pattern has admittedly emerged by this stage. In each book, the relationships come together and fall apart, as the narrative of a court case with a moral dimension keeps things moving, but Galsworthy's marvellous sense of poise carries it all through without a hindrance.
These are not particularly happy marriages. Hearts broken do not get mended, and unstable minds do not become stable. Indeed, Galsworthy has quite a harsh picture of how the world works. But then, it is compellingly real.
And utterly modern. There aren't veiled references to Claire's marriage to a sadist. It is right out in the open. The focus on the individual's rights against societal convention and the way unhappiness ensues is beautifully drawn out, and you wonder if this was the chord that hit home with the audience that watched it all in the Sixties.
I will be interested to see if the 2002 adaptation causes the same sensation. Or has the world moved past all this?
I don't think so. If the actors are any good, the drama surely can't fail. These are wonderful characters: Dinny, Dornford, Uncle Adrian and Uncle Hilary. For what it is worth, I think Claire is one of the sexiest characters in literature. But that is by the by.
Brilliant stuff, to be enjoyed again and again.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, indescribably absorbing, 6 July 2009
By Mrs. Judith Lugg (Wolverhampton, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Forsyte Saga: Volume II (Two) - The White Monkey/ The Silver Spoon/ Swan Song: "White Monkey", "Silver Spoon", "Swan Song" v. 2 (Paperback)
Great, enchanting, keeps you wanting more! All of Galsworthy's stories about the Forsyte Family are like this.
I read these books when I was about eighteen in 1962 and was taken back to them when the BBC did the first Forsyte Saga series with Eric Porter as Soames and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene, in late 60's early 70's. This was an excellent adaptation - the later one, made in about 2002,is awful (see my review on this). Nyree Dawn Porter will always be Irene to me, as Eric Porter will always be Soames in the old TV version.
These stories are not 'dated' as you might expect, as the intrigue, love, passion and greed are there just as much as in any racey novel of today, albeit, perhaps not in so many words..., nevertheless it is so well written that you get the gist just the same.
The scope of these stories is immense, taking in the Forsytes, their many relations, friends and acquaintances, all living, breathing, fighting and loving in these wonderful books.

The later books go on long past Soames, Irene et al, but are still just a well written and absorbing.
Do read them, if you can - when I bought them in about 1964 they were in three volumes and are now available as seperate books and in an omnibus edition, I believe. They are well worth whatever you pay, believe me and I know you will love them as much as I do.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF THE FORGOTTEN GREATS, 13 Sep 1998
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This review is from: The Forsyte Saga: Volume 1: The Man of Property, and, In Chancery, and, To Let (Paperback)
Upon the release of ML's 100 greatest English-lanuage novels of this century, it was to my great sadness to find "The Forsyte Saga" missing from the list. It seemed to confirm what I'd feared for the last several years: even critics have left this spectacular collection behind.

Perhaps it is the fact that of the book's length that frightens off so many readers: at 800+ pages it doesn't exactly make for easy beach reading. Keep in mind, however, that the book is comprised not only of three separate novels but also of connecting interludes.

If you want to read truly great literature of such a standard that earned John Galsworthy a Nobel Prize for Literature, you need look no further than "The Forsyte Saga."

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2.0 out of 5 stars Death on the horizon
The last three volumes of the Forsyte saga are the weakest, they deal with the changed conditions and economic pressures that arose post the Great War. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Book Addict

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing!
John Galsworthy is an incredible author capturing England perfectly. Reading this in the jungle made me homesick for England. Read more
Published 4 months ago by H. Carter

4.0 out of 5 stars A rich tapestry
It's easy to be put off by the sheer weight of the Forsyte tomes (there are three volumes in all, the first of which stretches to over 900 pages), but it should be noted that each... Read more
Published on 30 Jan 2003 by T. M. Lee-Newman

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books I've ever read
This is a must-read! Galsworthy's writing is outstanding. Also read the sequel to the Saga -- "A Modern Comedy."
Published on 19 July 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars The only thing better than the story is the writing.

Galsworthy gives his readers a view into the transition between the Victorian culture and the Modern through characters who seem to come alive under his masterful writing... Read more

Published on 1 April 1998

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