John Galsworthy (1867–1933)
Autor/a de The Forsyte Saga
Sobre l'autor
At age 28, after a gentlemanly education at Harrow and Oxford, and a training at law, Galsworthy settled into simultaneous careers as a novelist and a playwright. The Silver Box, Galsworthy's first successful drama, was staged in 1906, the year he published the first volume of what was to become mostra'n més The Forsyte Saga. His one-word titles - Justice (1910), Strife (1909), Loyalties (1922)---suggest the nature of Galsworthy's artistic ambition: to generalize a social indictment, keeping faith with the objective methods of naturalism. In each, Galsworthy favors an austere irony and unresolvable situations, and balanced moral positions are displayed in the cabinetwork of "well-made" playwrighting. Reputed to have led to reforms in its time, his realism today seems contrived to produce aesthetic distance and a sense of resignation that is precisely what contemporary political dramatists strain hardest to avoid. Not surprisingly, critics have come away from revivals with the sense that (especially in his spare language) Galsworthy anticipates Harold Pinter rather than more socially engaged playwrights. Galsworthy wrote novels and plays alternately throughout his life. His masterwork, The Forsyte Saga, begun in 1906 and finished in 1928, and consisting of six separate novels and two linking interludes, is the most famous example of the sequence novel in English literature. It is a study of the property sense, the possessive spirit, in different individuals and generations of English middle-class society. He also completed a second trilogy dealing with the Forsyte family, called A Modern Comedy (1928). His last trilogy, a study of the Charwell family, is called End of the Chapter (1933). Galsworthy's later years brought him many honors, including the presidency of P.E.N. and honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, and several other universities. After World War I, he was offered a knighthood, which he refused. He did, however, accept the Order of Merit in 1929, and in 1932 he was awarded the Nobel Prize. He was, however, too ill to attend the Nobel ceremony and died within two months of receiving the award. Although his posthumous reputation had waned, the centenary of his death, in 1967, brought a re-creation of The Forsyte Saga on British and American television in serial form. Interest in him skyrocketed, and the Forsyte novels again became bestsellers. With new popularity came fresh critical analysis. Pamela Hansford Johnson called The Forsyte Saga "a work of profound social insight and patchy psychological insight" (N.Y. Times). His critical writings include The Inn of Tranquility: Studies and Essays (1911) and Author and Critic. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Sèrie
Obres de John Galsworthy
The Apple Tree: Tales from the Caravan, the Assembled Collection (Nonsuch Classics) (2004) 15 exemplars
Galsworthy Compact Edition : 6 Volume Set - The Forsyte Saga; The White Monkey; The Silver Spoon; Swan Song; Caravan;… (1929) 9 exemplars
Addresses in America: 1919 4 exemplars
Die Ersten und die Letzten . Ein Mann aus Devon — Autor — 4 exemplars
Concerning the Palming of Cards 3 exemplars
A Long Ago Affair: Tales from Caravan, The Assembled Collection (Nonsuch Classics) (2005) 3 exemplars
THE FORSYTE SAGA VOLUME II & III 3 exemplars
Justice and Other Plays (Tauchnitz Edition Collection of British and American Authors Vol. 4362) 3 exemplars
The Forsyte saga [DVD] 3 exemplars
Satires and a commentary 3 exemplars
The Burning Spear / Villa Rubein 3 exemplars
John Galsworthy: Jenseits - Roman einer Liebe 2 exemplars
Silverskeden Forsytesagan 2 exemplars
Svanesång Forsytesagan 2 exemplars
Att Hyra Forsytesagan 2 exemplars
Landa in fiore. 2 exemplars
H3: IAppigionasi 2 exemplars
The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 1: The Forsyte Saga 2 exemplars
Den Vita Apan Forsytesagan 2 exemplars
Ancella 2 exemplars
Bojor Forsytesagan 2 exemplars
Новеллы 2 exemplars
[unidentified works] 2 exemplars
Four Forsyte Stories 2 exemplars
The Novels, Tales, and Plays of John Galsworthy 2 exemplars
The forest and six short plays (Collection of British authors. Tauchnitz edition) (1928) 2 exemplars
Forsytesagan. Bd 1, Förmöget folk 1 exemplars
Ancella - Landa in fiore 1 exemplars
En man från Devon och andra berättelser 1 exemplars
Kaasaegne komöödia 1 exemplars
Moderní komedie. Kniha III, Labutí zpěv 1 exemplars
Kaasaegne komöödia II 1 exemplars
The Dark Flower. Read by Toby Stephens [CD] 1 exemplars
Als dated Oct 11 1925 1 exemplars
Memories by John Sir Galsworthy (2004-04-10) 1 exemplars
Acme (Modern English Short Stories) 1 exemplars
O Proprietário 1 exemplars
Forsyte'ide saaga III 1 exemplars
Forsyte'ide saaga II 1 exemplars
Forsyte'ide saaga I 1 exemplars
Die Goldenen Äpfel 1 exemplars
Die Forsytes - Das Ende vom Lied 1 exemplars
Forsytesagan. Bd 3, Gryning ; Att hyra 1 exemplars
Plays of John Galsworthy 1 exemplars
Forsytesagan. Bd 4, På Forsytebörsen 1 exemplars
Hand to Earth 1 exemplars
Die forsyie saga 1 exemplars
FLOAREA INTUNECATA 1 exemplars
MAIMUTA ALBA/ COMEDIA MODERNA VOL1 1 exemplars
Forsyte Saga, The - 3 Vols. 1 exemplars
Plays of, The 1 exemplars
CINTECUL LEBEDEI/ COMEDIA MODERNA VOL3 1 exemplars
John Galsworthy: 7 Novels 1 exemplars
FORSYTE SAGA VOL3 1 exemplars
A Family Man and Other Plays 1 exemplars
Mai presus iubirea 1 exemplars
HThe IForsyte saga 1 exemplars
Denkwürdige Tage 1 exemplars
The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy 1 exemplars
The Galsworthy reader. Edited by Anthony West 1 exemplars
Os novos Forsyte 1 exemplars
Floarea întunecată 1 exemplars
La dinastia de los Forsyte 1 exemplars
Venkovské sídlo 1 exemplars
John Galsworthy: Meisternovellen 1 exemplars
LINGURA DE ARGINT COMEDIA MODERNA VOL2 1 exemplars
FORSYTE SAGA VOL1 1 exemplars
FORSYTE SAGA VOL2 1 exemplars
Forsyte Saga, D7 1 exemplars
Forsytein taru. 2 1 exemplars
Modern Komédia 1-2 1 exemplars
A Forsyta- Saga l-ll-lll-lV. 1 exemplars
Der Menschenfischer 1 exemplars
Ikke av denne verden 1 exemplars
John Galsworthy Collection 1 exemplars
Ein Kommentar Menschen und Schatten 1 exemplars
A stoic and the apple tree 1 exemplars
The Juryman 1 exemplars
Manna (in Law in Lit) 1 exemplars
Three tales 1 exemplars
Gesammelte Werke 1 exemplars
The Forsyte Saga/A Modern Comedy 1 exemplars
For love of beasts, 1 exemplars
The bells of peace 1 exemplars
Opere 1 exemplars
A Família Forsyte II Livro 1 1 exemplars
International Thought 1 exemplars
Flor sombria 1 exemplars
John Galsworthy - A Bit O' Love: "A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of… (2017) 1 exemplars
Dincolo 1 exemplars
Forsytein taru 1 exemplars
Meisternovellen 1 exemplars
Quality,The Consummation 1 exemplars
On expression 1 exemplars
Denkwürdige Tage Novellen 1 exemplars
The Man of Property (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1) 1 exemplars
Best of John Galsworthy (boxed set of 2 volumes) 1 exemplars
A nova geração - A saga dos Forsytes - Livro 3 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Col·laborador — 109 exemplars
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Col·laborador — 54 exemplars
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Col·laborador — 40 exemplars
A Treasury of the Theatre: From Henrik Ibsen to Eugène Ionesco (1960) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
Tales of the Wandering Jew: A Collection of Contemporary and Classic Stories (European Literary Fantasy Anthologies) (1991) — Col·laborador — 25 exemplars
Contemporary Drama: European, English and Irish, American Plays (1941) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays: A Doll's House, Miss Julie, The Weavers, Mrs Warren's Profession, Three… (2010) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Best Legal Stories — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The Reviewer, Volume II, Numbers 1-6 (October 1921-March 1922) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The Reviewer, Volume II, Number 4 (January, 1922) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
50 seltsame Geschichten — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Rosemary — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Galsworthy, John
- Altres noms
- Sinjohn, John (pseudonym)
- Data de naixement
- 1867-08-14
- Data de defunció
- 1933-01-31
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Cremated
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
- Causa de la mort
- brain tumor
- Llocs de residència
- Bury, West Sussex, England, UK
- Educació
- New College, Oxford University (BA|1889)
Harrow School
Saugeen - Professions
- novelist
dramatist
playwright
barrister - Organitzacions
- Lincoln's Inn (1890)
International PEN Club - Premis i honors
- Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1932)
Membres
Converses
Group Read: The Forsyte Saga a 2018 Category Challenge (setembre 2021)
The Forsyte Saga a 18th-19th Century Britain (desembre 2017)
Group Read for August 2013: The Forsyte Saga a 1001 Books to read before you die (agost 2013)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Five star books (1)
Best family sagas (12)
Unmarried women (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
Books with Twins (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 307
- També de
- 71
- Membres
- 10,580
- Popularitat
- #2,246
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 197
- ISBN
- 1,337
- Llengües
- 18
- Preferit
- 25