John Galsworthy's account traces the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through years of material triumph and emotional disaster. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife Irene reverberates throughout the saga.
'Dirk Bogarde's delectable reading as the narrator supplies the romantic colouration that the story itself rarely achieves, and Sir Michael Hordernas Old Jolyon, the one genuinely warm heart in the entire chronicle, heads an excellent cast' -Financial Times
