John Galsworthy 
Forsyte Saga 

John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga collects together three novels and two interludes, all published between 1906 and 1921. Not far removed from their farming history, the members of an upper-middle-class British family are painfully aware of being "new money". As a "man of property", Soames Forsyte’s abilities bring him material wealth, but they grant him no quarter in the happiness stakes.