![]() ![]() Into that social commentary, he wove a meditation on love, life, death, beauty, the good and the bad of human feelings and aspirations. Galsworthy chronicled the passing of the Victorian and Edwardian ages, and the social, economic and political changes experienced by the English middle class as it moved into the 20th century. ![]() Although I occasionally thought the narrative dragged just a bit, I remained engaged, probably because after listening to the first two novels, I had invested a lot of time in getting to know the Forsytes and wanted to know what happened to them.Īs a whole, the trilogy is much more than just a multi-generational soap opera. ![]() Galsworthy's prose is elegant and full of irony and yet he depicts even the least attractive of his characters with understanding and compassion. This novel is as witty a commentary on English middle class values as the first two novels in the trilogy. ![]() It may be because much of what I want to say about it I've already written in my reviews of the the first two novels of the The Forsyte Saga trilogy, The Man of Property: The Forsyte Saga and In Chancery, which can be found here and here. I'm not sure why I've found it difficult to write a review of this novel. ![]()
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