The classic tale of a wealthy English family, and a jealous husband who will stop at nothing to gain dominion over his bride. The first installment of the critically acclaimed Forsyte Saga introduces the Forsyte clan and their endlessly fascinating intrigues. Author John Galsworthy's take on the constricted roles of women within the confines of marriage casts an unforgiving light on traditional courtship while rendering otherwise common domestic dramas...

The final chapter in the saga of a once-wealthy English family tormented by the sins of their past. Old loves threaten to jeopardize a family's future in the final installment of the Forsyte Saga. Part social satire, part melodrama, this captivating novel brings to fascinating life author John Galsworthy's preoccupations with class, gender, and morality. Soames and Irene Forsyte have finally separated after years of turmoil. Irene is now wed to...

Excerpt: "It was a dark room at that hour of six in the evening, when just the single oil reading-lamp under its green shade let fall a dapple of light over the Turkey carpet; over the covers of books taken out of the bookshelves, and the open pages of the one selected; over the deep blue and gold of the coffee service on the little old stool with its Oriental embroidery. Very dark in the winter, with drawn curtains, many rows of leather-bound volumes,...

This 1914 drama follows a moral politician, Stephen More, as he watches his powerful country plan an attack on a small country. What's worse, his government is using trumped up charges in order to overtake and add the small country to their empire. More feels powerless as pressures from his family and parliament keep him quiet.

This 1913 novel traces the history of one man, Mark Lennan, from his eighteenth year through his forty-eighth. But Galsworthy's real focus is the women in Mark's life. Each phase of his adulthood focuses on a women – his mother, then wife, then daughter, represented by "Spring," "Summer," and "Autumn," respectively. A contemporary review in the New York Times called the book "his most vital novel."

This 1909 "Play on the Letter 'I'"-as the subtitle puts it-is about a young woman, the Joy of the title. After the separation of her parents, she discovers that her mother inhabits a wider and wilder world than she had suspected, and Joy must come to terms with it one way or another.

The White Monkey is the fourth of the nine novels in the Forsyte Chronicles and marks the opening of the second trilogy in the series, called A Modern Comedy. In this new chapter, Fleur and Michael Mont begin to question their marriage when their good friend, author Wilfred Desert, can no longer contain his passion for Fleur. Fleur finds herself torn between her love for Michael and passion for Wilfred. Meanwhile, Soames Forsyte, as a director of...

John Galsworthy: Die Forsyte-Saga (Alle drei Bände) Neu editierte Ausgabe, mit aktualisierter Rechtschreibung, voll verlinkt, mit Fußnoten Die großartige Familiensaga des Literaturnobelpreisträgers John Galsworthy zeichnet über vier Generationen hinweg ein Sittenbild der gehobenen Gesellschaft Englands vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein. Die alte Generation der weit verzweigten Forsyte-Sippe beharrt auf den erzkonservativen...

This 1912 collection of twenty-six "essays and studies," divided between "Life" and "Letters" was praised by the New York Times reviewer as "a string of the finest pearls." Contents include the title entry, as well as "The Black Godmother," "Magpie Over the Hill," "Sheep-shearing," "Evolution," "On Our Dislike of Things as They Are," and "A Christian," among others.

The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by the English author John Galsworthy, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of a large upper-middle-class English family that is similar to Galsworthy's. Only a few generations removed from their farmer ancestors, its members are keenly aware of their status...