The Forsyte Saga is Galsworthy's trilogy about the eponymous family and
connected lives. These books, as with many of his other works, deal with
social class, upper-middle class lives in particular. Although
sympathetic to his characters, he highlights their insular, snobbish,
and acquisitive attitudes and their suffocating moral codes. He is
viewed as one of the first writers of the Edwardian era who challenged
some of the ideals of society depicted in the preceding literature of
Victorian England. The depiction of a woman in an unhappy marriage
furnishes another recurring theme in his work. John Galsworthy was an
English novelist and playwright. This is Volume one of his most notable
work The Forsyte Saga. He went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
in 1932.