First published in 1922, ‘The Forsyte Saga’ is a series of three novels and two interludes by John Galsworthy, an English novelist, and playwright, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
The novel recounts the alterations of the leading members of a large commercial upper-middle-class English family, similar to Galsworthy's own. It portrays the ignitable combination of love and money. The second trilogy of the Forsyte Saga is A Modern Comedy, written in the years 1924 to 1928. This comprises a novel, The White Monkey, an interlude, A Silent Wooing, a second novel, The Silver Spoon, a second interlude, Passers By, and a third novel Swan Song. The third trilogy of the Forsyte Saga is End of the Chapter, comprising Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness, and Over the River (also known as One More River), mainly dealing with Michael Mont's young cousin, Dinny Cherrell.