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Discounting for the gigantic stature and blood-thirstiness of old days, as they have come down to us in fairy-tale and legend, the folk of the old Sagas were Forsytes, assuredly, in their possessive instincts, and as little proof against the inroads of beauty and passion as Swithin, Soames, or even Young Jolyon. And if heroic figures, in days that never were, seem to startle out from their surroundings in fashion unbecoming to a Forsyte of the Victorian era, we may be sure that tribal instinct was even then the prime force, and that "family" and the sense of home and property counted as they do to this day, for all the recent efforts to "talk them out.

Manners change and modes evolve, and "Timothy's on the Bayswater Road" becomes a nest of the unbelievable in all except essentials; we shall not look upon its like again, nor perhaps on such a one as James or Old Jolyon. And yet the figures of Insurance Societies and the utterances of Judges reassure us daily that our earthly paradise is still a rich preserve, where the wild raiders, Beauty and Passion, come stealing in, filching security from beneath our noses.

As surely as a dog will bark at a brass band, so will the essential Soames in human nature ever rise up uneasily against the dissolution which hovers round the folds of ownership. The persistence of the Past is one of those tragi-comic blessings which each new age denies, coming cocksure on to the stage to mouth its claim to a perfect novelty.

The Forsyte Saga, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between and by Nobel Prize-winning John Galsworthy. Chronicles the lives of three generations of the Forsyte family. Vicissitudes of leading members of upper class British family.

Ioan Gruffudd as Phillip Bosinney. Barbara Flynn as. Christian Coulson as. Wendy Craig as. Alice Patten as. Alistair Petrie as. Amanda Root as. Amanda Ryan as. Ann Bell as. Beatriz Batarda as.

Ben Miles as. Gillian Kearney as. Joanna David as. Winifred Dartie. Gillian Kearney. June Forsyte. Corin Redgrave. Old Jolyon Forsyte. Malcolm Raeburn. Ann Bell. Aunt Hester. Julian Ovenden. Val Dartie. Wendy Craig. Aunt Juley. Alistair Petrie. Rupert Graves. Young Jolyon Forsyte.

Maggie Fox. Gina McKee. Irene Forsyte. Barbara Flynn. John Carlisle. James Forsyte.