Author(s): John Galsworthy

Literature

John Galworthy's sweeping trilogy of family fortunes began with the crumbling values of the Victorian Age, moved through the First World War, and now concludes in the 1930's, where more dramatic change is taking place. In this final volume of The Forsyte SagaGalsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home at Condaford Grange to serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930's bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and unemployment. Galsworthy's portrayal of the effect of political change on individuals shows him as a great social novelist as well as the author of one of the most gripping family sagas ever written.