The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 1: The Forsyte Saga

Name: The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 1: The Forsyte Saga
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Author: John Galsworthy
ISBN: 9781781983447

Author: John Galsworthy

Narrator: David Timson

Abridged: 38 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Published: 12/21/2020

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

John Galsworthy's magnificent trilogy of power and passion chronicles the wealthy Forsyte family. As the disintegrating values of the Victorian era progress to World War I and the political uncertainty of the 1930s, the family's material and emotional struggles are set within the dwindling status of the affluent middle-classes. Infused with warmth, compassion and engaging characters, the complete Chronicles are divided into three volumes, containing nine books and three interludes in total. In Volume 1, The Forsyte Saga, Soames Forsyte - the 'man of property' - is desperate to uphold values and conventions that are becoming out of step with the time. His most prized possession is his strikingly beautiful wife Irene, but she is profoundly unhappy; the bitterness only builds, and the events that follow are set to ripple through the next generation of Forsytes. The Forsyte Saga contains Book 1: The Man of Property, Interlude: Indian Summer of a Forsyte, Book 2: In Chancery, Interlude: Awakening and Book 3: To Let.

About John Galsworthy

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.) on April 28, 2010

This is a titanic masterpiece of a multi-generational story of a fictional English family that spans the Victorian, Edwardian, and post-World War I eras. For the first one-hundred pages or so, I found myself having to frequently refer to the Forsyte family genealogical chart; however, by the end of......more

Goodreads review by Jola on May 02, 2020

THE FORSYTES REVISITED OR SIPPING CHICKEN SOUP AND SMELLING WARM STRAWBERRIES Rereading the book which you once loved, might be risky. On the one hand, you may repeat a delightful experience. On the other hand, the colours of butterflies, that you felt in your stomach years ago, might have faded away.......more

Goodreads review by Tea on May 09, 2013

Ako ste u prilici odgledajte novu verziju BBC-jeve serije snimljene po ovom romanu, pre nekoliko godina... sjajno je urađenja.........more

Goodreads review by Werner on January 26, 2020

Note, Jan. 26, 2020: I just edited this review to insert an accidentally omitted word in one place. As a kid growing up, my home town only could receive three TV stations (ABC, CBS, NBC). Our part of Iowa got a PBS station in 1968, and one of the first programs I was able to see on it was the BBC min......more