Description: Nobel Prize-winning author John Galsworthy chronicles the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family through three generations in England.
Brief description:
John Galsworthy (1867-1933), English novelist and playwright, went to Oxford to study law but turned to literature after he met Joseph Conrad on a voyage. The Man of Property (1906), the first of the Forsyte Chronicles, established his reputation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.
Review Quotes:
"A social satire of epic proportions...[A] comedy of manners, convincing both in its fidelity to life and as a work of art."
-- "New York Times"