The Man of Property Author:John Galsworthy "It has a subject as large and solid as the Albert Memorial or the Royal Courts of Justice: a prosperous, fecund, upper-middle-class family in the London of the late eighties, united by a joint concern for the acquisition and preservation of wealth. With their dark, densely furnished, immaculate houses, their gleaming carriages . . . with thei... more »r serene social self-assurance . . . they seem of the very essence of the British empire at its most arrogant and most far-flung. To see the fortress which they created against hunger and question marks after that fortress has largely crumbled, as we see it in reading Galsworthy today, provides an added layer of irony." Thus the noted critic and novelist Louis Auchincloss writes in his Afterword this this, the first and greatest of the novels of the Forsyte Saga. The story centers upon Soaqmes Forsyte, "the man of property," and the woman whose troubling beauty he seeks to make part of that property, first through marriage, then through destruction of the man she loves. A chronicle of voracious acquisitiveness, its intimate, unsparing depiction of late-Victorian life and values has never been equaled. It is a work which established itw author as the foremost voice of his age, and as one of the major novelists of the century.« less