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Title: The Forsyte Saga (Oxford World's Classics) by John Galsworthy, Geoffrey Harvey ISBN: 0-19-283862-8 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (17 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Simply soap opera - but a good one
Comment: I got hooked on John Galsworthy's Forsyte novels when I saw the BBC TV series in 1969. At that time I sympathized with Irene and Bossinney and hated Soames for what he did to them. Now that I am older I can relate to the Forsytes more and see Irene as a selfish woman who wrecked an entire family - primarily Soames, June, Old Jolyon and her own son, Jon - and whose only redeeming feature was her beauty. And I find it incredible that Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize when so many greater writers - Tolstoy, Twain and Proust, just to name a few - were ignored. Still, as soap opera, "The Forsyte Saga" is fun to read, especially when followed by Gaslworthy's "Modern Comedy" and "The End of the Chapter" and even Suleika Dawson's vastly inferior "The Forsytes". And that is not too shabby.
Rating: 5
Summary: Read It And Weep...
Comment: This body of works has moved me unlike any other. I have re-read the Forsyte Saga over and over again. Each time, I am brought to tears. Sadness over Irene's situation and then by the end, for Soames, who wanted nothing more than to love her and lavish upon her all that he could. When Irene and Young Jolyon marry, you want all the best for them, even knowing the pain Soames feels. Throughout the entire history of this family, you share their joys, sorrows and even a little bit of laughter. You just can't help loving Aunts Ann, Julia & Hester. You'll never regret the reading of these books. It took me 4 yrs. of searching thrift stores in order to have all 3 hardbacks. I've never had more fun searching for something!
Rating: 5
Summary: The first of the great British family sagas
Comment: Galsworthy was the first to borrow the term "saga" from the Nordic epic poems to apply to a lengthy novelistic study of a family: the trilogy, his masterpiece, influenced more writers in this century than probably can be counted (most eminently Robert Graves and -- in THE YEARS -- Virginia Woolf). Although it very quickly went out of fashion among the modernist writers of his time, THE FORSYTE SAGA has remained a popular hit, inspiring no less than two famous BBC mini-series. And it's the real deal: I can think of few novel cycles that are as satisfying or as eminently readable, much less that are as minutely crafted. (The continuing themes of possesion and death cycle throughout the saga in such fascinating ways that it is almost impossible to believe Galsworthy wrote the first novel, THE MAN OF PROPERTY, without intending to build a trilogy out of it.) The best edition in print seems to be the Oxford World's Classics edition in that it comes with an indispensable family tree.
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Title: Indian Summer of a Forsyte (The Forsyte Saga, Volume 2) by John Galsworthy ISBN: 1404309330 Publisher: Indypublish.Com Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Awakening & to Let (The Forsyte Saga, Volume 3) by John Galsworthy ISBN: 1588276899 Publisher: Indypublish.Com Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title:The Forsyte Saga, Series 1 ASIN: B00006FHZE Publisher: Acorn Media Publishing Inc. Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $53.96 |
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Title: The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford ISBN: 0375718990 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Modern Comedy by John Galsworthy ISBN: 0025423703 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: December, 1987 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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