“The Forsyte Saga” by the famous English writer J. Galsworthy (1867 - 1933) is an epic about the fate of an English bourgeois family, which is a realistic picture of the morals of the Victorian era. "The White Monkey" is the story of the second generation of the Forsyte family, which has already overcome the prejudices of the Victorian era, but is hopelessly entangled in the joyful, hedonistic madness of the "new era"...