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New York: Scribner's, 1927. Grove Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [17.5cm/7inches], full gilt-embossed green cloth sans dust jacket, pp.396. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prizewinning English author John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of a large commercial upper-middle-class English family, similar to Galsworthy's own.Only a few generations removed from their farmer ancestors, the family members are keenly aware of their status as "new money". The main character, Soames Forsyte, sees himself as a "man of property" by virtue of his ability to accumulate material possessionsbut this does not succeed in bringing him pleasure.