The Forsyth Saga

One of the great works of English fiction, The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy follows three generations of an upper-middle-class Victorian family with a sharp eye for social ambition, property, love and the quiet cruelties of respectable life. First published in 1922 and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for its author in the same year, it remains a sweeping and absorbing portrait of an era, brought vividly to life by Galsworthy's warm but unsentimental storytelling.

This is the Reprint Society edition of 1949, chosen as their prestigious hundredth selection, and includes the original Forsyte family tree. The Reprint Society brought the best of contemporary literature to a wide readership in handsome affordable editions, and this is a pleasing example of that tradition.