The Forsyte Saga

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The Forsyte Saga is a series of novels by John Galsworthy that chronicles the lives, conflicts, and moral dilemmas of an upper-middle-class English family from the late Victorian era into the early 20th century.

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instanceOf literary work
novel series
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radio drama adaptations
author John Galsworthy
awarded Nobel Prize in Literature context
centralCharacter Irene Forsyte
Jolyon Forsyte
Soames Forsyte
containsWork Awakening
In Chancery
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surface form: Indian Summer of a Forsyte

The Man of Property
To Let
contributedTo John Galsworthy Nobel Prize in Literature 1932
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublicationYear 1906
form prose fiction
genre family saga
realist fiction
social novel
hasCharacterType upper-middle-class English family members
hasSequel A Modern Comedy
End of the Chapter
literaryInfluenceOn later British family sagas
literaryMovement Edwardian literature
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
mainSubject Forsyte family
medium print
narrativePerspective third-person omniscient
narrativeScope late Victorian era to early 20th century
notableFor critique of Victorian values
detailed portrayal of upper-middle-class English life
originalLanguage English
publicationPeriod 1906–1921
publisher William Heinemann
setting England
London, England
surface form: London
structure interlinked novels and interludes
targetAudience adult readers
theme class and status
marriage and divorce
moral conflict
property and ownership
social change
timeSpanOfFictionalEvents circa 1880s–1920s

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this entity surface form: The Forsyte Saga (1967 TV series)
The Forsyte Saga adaptedAs The Forsyte Saga self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Forsyte Saga (2002 TV series)
To Let alsoKnownAs The Forsyte Saga
this entity surface form: The Forsyte Saga: To Let
Ada Galsworthy associatedWith The Forsyte Saga
The Forsyte Saga containsWork The Forsyte Saga self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Indian Summer of a Forsyte
A Modern Comedy follows The Forsyte Saga
Masterpiece hasNotableAdaptation The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy notableFor The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy notableWork The Forsyte Saga
Ada Galsworthy notableWork The Forsyte Saga
subject surface form: John Galsworthy
William Heinemann notableWorkPublished The Forsyte Saga
In Chancery partOf The Forsyte Saga
The Man of Property partOf The Forsyte Saga
End of the Chapter partOfSeries The Forsyte Saga
this entity surface form: The Forsyte Saga cycle
To Let partOfSeries The Forsyte Saga
The Man of Property partOfTrilogy The Forsyte Saga
this entity surface form: The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property, In Chancery, To Let
Edwardian era relatedWorkOfFiction The Forsyte Saga