num_pages: 364
description: The most prized item in Soames Forsyte's collection of beautiful things is his wife, the enigmatic Irene. But when she falls in love with Bosinney, a penniless architect who utterly rejects the Forsyte values, their affair touches off a series of events which can only end in disgrace and disaster.John Galsworthy tackles his theme of the demise of the upper-middle classes with irony and compassion.
language: English
title: The Man of Property
titlecomplete: The Man of Property (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1)
characters: Jolyon Forsyte, Irene Forsyte (Heron), June Forsyte, Soames Forsyte
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 4509
series: The Forsyte Chronicles, The Forsyte Saga
publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd