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Three novels by John Galsworthy

For other uses, see The Forsyte Saga (disambiguation).

The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in , is a series of three novels and two interludes published between and by the English author John Galsworthy, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of a large upper-middle-class English family that is similar to Galsworthy's.^[1] Only a few generations removed from their farmer ancestors, its members are keenly aware of their status as "new money".

The main character, the solicitor and connoisseur Soames Forsyte, sees himself as a "man of property" by virtue of his ability to accumulate material possessions, but that does not succeed in bringing him pleasure.

Separate sections of the saga, as well as the lengthy story in its entirety, have been adapted for cinema and television.

The Man of Property, the first book, was adapted in by Hollywood as That