Perhaps comparing him to Mr Dickens isn’t fair, but it is hard not to when the similarities are so obvious personally, I found Galsworthy’s prose a bit pompous.
The style of Galsworthy reminds me of my perennial favourite, Charles Dickens, but he seemed to write with less flair. To me, it read like a soap opera, and while I’m aware that this would have heightened its appeal to the filmmakers who made it into a miniseries not too long ago, it didn’t really appeal to me as I thought it would. Indeed, there were moments where I put it aside to read something more interesting I felt that it dragged and wasn’t nearly as exciting or intriguing as I’d been led to believe. It isn’t a story I would rush to recommend, and I did breathe a sigh of relief to have finished. It is a series about the expansion of wealth and the price of beauty and love.
The story focuses on two branches of the family (the Jolyon Forsytes and the James Forsytes), and it is their interactions that form the main plot of this saga. It focuses on a large upper-middle class family who are very conscious of their wealth being “new money”. The Forsyte Saga is a trilogy about money, class, and morals at the end of the Victorian/start of the Edwardian era.
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