"The Forsyte Saga" by John Galsworthy, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931. Later Printing of the First American edition. [First US printing was issued by Scribner's in 1922].

Hard boards, original green cloth with gold lettering on front board and spine [a little wear: see photos]; 5.1/2" x 7.3/4"; "Mary Philbrook" is ink written inside cover, xvi + 870 pages + foldout family tree in rear, very good condition.

Contains complete all three novels:

Man of Property,
In Chancery, and
To Let.

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. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women.

"The Forsyte Saga", first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels 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 as "new money". The main character, the solicitor and connoisseur Soames Forsyte, sees himself as a "man of property" by virtue of his ability to accumulate material possessions, but that does not succeed in bringing him pleasure.

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