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Forsyte Saga, The

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	Publisher :	Blackstone Audio Inc
	Author :	John Galsworthy
	Narrator :	Fred Williams

	Length :	43 hours (Unabridged)

Physical Price :		$79.95
Download Price :		$62.99

Format :		Encoded Windows Media

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The Forsyte Saga chronicles the ebbing social power of the
commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning
in Victorian London during the 1880s and ending in the early 1920s. The saga begins
with Soames Forsyte, a successful solicitor who buys land at Robin Hill on which to
build a house for his wife Irene and future family. Eventually, the Forsyte family
begins to disintegrate when Timothy Forsyte, the last of the old generation, dies at
the age of 100.

In the three novels and two interludes that comprise the saga, Galsworthy documented
a departed way of life, that of the affluent middle class that ruled England before the
1914 war. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the
wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women.

John Galsworthy (1867-1933), English novelist and playwright, was born at Combe and educated at Oxford where he prepared to go into law but turned to literature after he met Joseph Conrad on a voyage. The Man of Property (1906), the first of the three novels that became The Forsyte Saga, established his reputation as an author and a keen observer of society. In 1921 he founded PEN, a worldwide organization of writers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.

Fred Williams, a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, works in theater, film, TV, and radio in England, Ireland, and America. Besides narrating audiobooks, he is a performer in living-history re-enactments, an archer, and a poet.

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