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A Splendid Display of 'Forsyte': The Saga Lives On; DVD Sets Include Absorbing BBC Version of British Tale

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20030622
Author:Tim Page

The books of John Galsworthy (1867-1933), once so popular and plentiful, are all but unread today. Galsworthy produced a great deal of writing -- not only the nine novels that make up "The Forsyte Saga," far and away his most celebrated work, but more than 25 plays, dozens of short stories, and collections of essays on everything from the horrors of vivisection to the literary legacy of James Russell Lowell.

But Galsworthy's sheer prolificacy may have worked against him: Like the composer Antonio Vivaldi, he simply wrote too much for posterity to sort out. And so he is either condescended ...

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