Foursyte Saga - The Man of Property
PREFACE
"The Forsyte Saga" was the title originally destined for that part of it which is called "The Man of
Property"; and to adopt it for the collected chronicles of the Forsyte family has indulged the
Forsytean tenacity that is in all of us. The word Saga might be objected to on the ground that it
connotes the heroic and that there is little heroism in these pages. But it is used with a suitable
irony; and, after all, this long tale, though it may deal with folk in frock coats, furbelows, and a gilt-
edged period, is not devoid of the essential heat of conflict. 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
annaabi.ee 
