The nine books which make up The Forsyte Chronicles - one of the most famous and suffering works of twentieth-century writing - a narrative the ebbing social intensity of the business upper-white collar class Forsyte family somewhere in the range of 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's skillful story analyzes their fortunes as well as the more extensive improvements inside society, especially the changing position of ladies. The creator has drawn an entrancing and precisely definite image of the British propertied class.