Reply #43: The Forsyte Saga

[Mz Pip]

is certainly multi-generational. There are 6 books beginning around 1879 ending in sometime in the 1920s. It's historical in that it deals with the changes that come to British society (both upper and lower class) during the industrial revolution. Some of the events include the Boer War and the General Strike.

It's one of my favorite works of literature. IT was written by John Galsworthy and he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1934 the year after he died.

There are 4 additional books that revolve around some periperal characters that are also very good. One is a collection of short stories about the early lives of the various elderly Forsytes and 3 are novels about a family of Forsyte cousins.