
The Forsyte Saga - Volume 1 - John Galsworthy
Late-night book club discussion of John Galsworthy’s classic novel “The Man of Property,” tracing the Forsyte family’s waning upper-middle-class power from 1886–1920. Conversation centers on social change, fortunes, and shifting women’s roles, with optional chat about later volumes.
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