Kniha: Forsyte Saga, The v anglickom jazyku

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Geoffrey Harvey
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. 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 social developments, particularly the changing position of women in an intensely competitive male world. Above all, G^sworthy 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.