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An omnibus of three books set in 1886, 1900 and 1920 respectively, The Forsyte Saga chronicles the rise and fall of a man, a marriage, the greater Forsyte family, and Victorianism in general. The story seemed a slow burner at first, but got its claws into me at about the point where Soames Forsyte commits a certain unforgivable act against his lawful wife. The rest of the story follows the many ripples that expand out from this incident across the decades and generations. I found the third book,
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I thoroughly enjoyed this family saga. Over the span of 1,000 pages, we watch four generations of a family in mid-nineteenth century England through the inter-war period. Through the eyes of two cousins, this family comes alive, and through the eyes of this family, we see the birth, maturation and transformation of the “middle class”. England is changing from a society built on a two class system of nobility and commoner into a three class system with a newly created moneyed class that aspires t
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