This 1913 novel traces the history of one man, Mark Lennan, from his eighteenth year through his forty-eighth. But Galsworthy’s real focus is the women in Mark’s life. Each phase of his adulthood focuses on a women – his mother, then wife, then daughter, represented by “Spring, ” “Summer, ” and “Autumn, ” respectively. A contemporary review in the New York Times called the book ‘his most vital novel.’
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John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known for his ambitious series of novels The Forsyte Saga (1906-1922), which focuses on the fortune of a family over time, and aims to illuminate the social and economic changes occurring throughout England. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.