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The series. The Forsyte Saga is a series by English novelist John Galsworthy, detailing three arguably four generations of an upper-middle-class Victorian family from the s through to the mids. The nouveau riche Forsytes are chiefly concerned with property, wealth and the family, though it is their obsession with property that is the underlying theme of the saga.

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Property comes in many forms, and the character of Soames Forsyte loses almost every form of property that his kind values — first his beautiful wife Irene abandons him with good reason , then he is forced to sell the house he commissioned as a way of isolating her; finally, his chance of having a son is extinguished forever when his second wife, Annette, gives birth to a daughter after a difficult labour and can no longer bear children — thus even his name is taken out of his hands, as no one will bear it once he dies.

Soames is contrasted by his unconventional first cousin, Young Jolyon. He has left his wife to live in poverty with another woman, and the feelings between him and Soames can only be described as mutual hatred. And it only becomes even worse when Irene starts an affair with Jolyon they get married after her divorce from Soames is finally settled.

The saga is an example of the decrease of moral lessons being pressed onto the reader, as all characters have shades of grey and can be assigned motivations for even the most selfish of their actions. Soames, for example, commits the most despicable act in the book, and yet the reader can still sympathise with his character. Galsworthy later completed the saga with a trio of novels about the Cherrells Charwells , who are related to the Forsytes by marriage - Maid In Waiting , Flowering Wilderness and Over the River.

The books spawned two British television serials. It was broadcast on The BBC in to great acclaim, and drew in 18 million viewers every Sunday when it was repeated a year later.

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And in case anyone's interested, there was also a BBC Radio dramatisation. The Forsyte Saga contains examples of: Aerith and Bob : The Forsytes are fond of giving weird names to their children. The founder of the family was named Jolyon, and in every next generation the eldest son of a Jolyon is also named Jolyon.