The Forsyte Saga: Volume 2

The first Forsyte Saga trilogy ends. The world has changed. Soames’s daughter Fleur has been born into the Edwardian world and grown up in the wreckage of the Great War, and she is nothing like her father — more charming, more social, more brilliantly adaptive — and yet in one crucial respect exactly like him: she cannot accept not getting what she wants.

The second trilogy — The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon, and Swan Song — follows Fleur’s marriage to the idealistic Michael Mont and her unresolved longing for Jon Forsyte, the man her family’s history made it impossible for her to marry. Against the background of 1920s Britain — uncertain, socially fluid, haunted by its own recent catastrophe — Galsworthy traces the Forsyte family into a new era with the same ironic precision and social acuity that made the first trilogy one of the great achievements of English fiction.

The saga concludes with one of English fiction’s most perfectly judged and most moving endings. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.