John Galsworthy published three novels chronicling the Forsyte family, a fictional upper-middle class family at the end of the Victorian era:
The Man of Property,
In Chancery, and
To Let. In 1922 Galsworthy wrote two interconnecting short stories to bind the three novels together and published the whole as
The Forsyte Saga.
While the novels follow the Forsyte family at large, the action centers around Soames Forsyte—the scion of a nouveau-riche London tea merchant—his wife Irene, and their unhappy marriage. Soames and his sprawling family are portrayed as stereotypes of unhappy gilded-age wealth, their family having entered..." data-title="Книга The Forsyte Saga">