John Galsworthy (1867–1933)
Auteur van De Forsyte Sage
Over de Auteur
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 toon meer 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) toon minder
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Werken van John Galsworthy
The Apple Tree: Tales from the Caravan, the Assembled Collection (Nonsuch Classics) (2004) 15 exemplaren
Galsworthy Compact Edition : 6 Volume Set - The Forsyte Saga; The White Monkey; The Silver Spoon; Swan Song; Caravan;… (1929) 9 exemplaren
Addresses in America: 1919 4 exemplaren
Die Ersten und die Letzten . Ein Mann aus Devon — Auteur — 4 exemplaren
THE FORSYTE SAGA VOLUME II & III 3 exemplaren
A Long Ago Affair: Tales from Caravan, The Assembled Collection (Nonsuch Classics) (2005) 3 exemplaren
Justice and Other Plays (Tauchnitz Edition Collection of British and American Authors Vol. 4362) 3 exemplaren
Satires and a commentary 3 exemplaren
The Burning Spear / Villa Rubein 3 exemplaren
Concerning the Palming of Cards 3 exemplaren
The Forsyte saga [DVD] 3 exemplaren
Bojor Forsytesagan 2 exemplaren
Svanesång Forsytesagan 2 exemplaren
Den Vita Apan Forsytesagan 2 exemplaren
Ancella 2 exemplaren
Landa in fiore. 2 exemplaren
John Galsworthy: Jenseits - Roman einer Liebe 2 exemplaren
H3: IAppigionasi 2 exemplaren
The forest and six short plays (Collection of British authors. Tauchnitz edition) (1928) 2 exemplaren
Four Forsyte Stories 2 exemplaren
Att Hyra Forsytesagan 2 exemplaren
The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 1: The Forsyte Saga 2 exemplaren
Silverskeden Forsytesagan 2 exemplaren
The Novels, Tales, and Plays of John Galsworthy 2 exemplaren
Новеллы 2 exemplaren
Untitled 2 exemplaren
Forsytesagan. Bd 1, Förmöget folk 1 exemplaar
Kaasaegne komöödia II 1 exemplaar
FORSYTE SAGA VOL1 1 exemplaar
Kaasaegne komöödia 1 exemplaar
Forsyte'ide saaga II 1 exemplaar
En man från Devon och andra berättelser 1 exemplaar
Moderní komedie. Kniha III, Labutí zpěv 1 exemplaar
LINGURA DE ARGINT COMEDIA MODERNA VOL2 1 exemplaar
Ancella - Landa in fiore 1 exemplaar
Forsyte'ide saaga I 1 exemplaar
The Dark Flower. Read by Toby Stephens [CD] 1 exemplaar
FORSYTE SAGA VOL2 1 exemplaar
Die Forsytes - Das Ende vom Lied 1 exemplaar
Forsyte'ide saaga III 1 exemplaar
Die Goldenen Äpfel 1 exemplaar
O Proprietário 1 exemplaar
Floarea întunecată 1 exemplaar
Als dated Oct 11 1925 1 exemplaar
Mai presus iubirea 1 exemplaar
Acme (Modern English Short Stories) 1 exemplaar
Memories by John Sir Galsworthy (2004-04-10) 1 exemplaar
Forsytesagan. Bd 3, Gryning ; Att hyra 1 exemplaar
Denkwürdige Tage 1 exemplaar
Forsytesagan. Bd 4, På Forsytebörsen 1 exemplaar
Hand to Earth 1 exemplaar
Plays of John Galsworthy 1 exemplaar
Die forsyie saga 1 exemplaar
Forsyte Saga, The - 3 Vols. 1 exemplaar
Plays of, The 1 exemplaar
John Galsworthy: 7 Novels 1 exemplaar
A Family Man and Other Plays 1 exemplaar
HThe IForsyte saga 1 exemplaar
FLOAREA INTUNECATA 1 exemplaar
MAIMUTA ALBA/ COMEDIA MODERNA VOL1 1 exemplaar
CINTECUL LEBEDEI/ COMEDIA MODERNA VOL3 1 exemplaar
John Galsworthy: Meisternovellen 1 exemplaar
Venkovské sídlo 1 exemplaar
Os novos Forsyte 1 exemplaar
The Galsworthy reader. Edited by Anthony West 1 exemplaar
FORSYTE SAGA VOL3 1 exemplaar
The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy 1 exemplaar
International Thought 1 exemplaar
La dinastia de los Forsyte 1 exemplaar
A Forsyta- Saga l-ll-lll-lV. 1 exemplaar
Der Menschenfischer 1 exemplaar
Ikke av denne verden 1 exemplaar
Ein Kommentar Menschen und Schatten 1 exemplaar
Three tales 1 exemplaar
On expression 1 exemplaar
The bells of peace 1 exemplaar
For love of beasts, 1 exemplaar
Opere 1 exemplaar
Gesammelte Werke 1 exemplaar
John Galsworthy Collection 1 exemplaar
Modern Komédia 1-2 1 exemplaar
The Forsyte Saga/A Modern Comedy 1 exemplaar
Forsytein taru. 2 1 exemplaar
Meisternovellen 1 exemplaar
Denkwürdige Tage Novellen 1 exemplaar
Forsyte Saga, D7 1 exemplaar
A Família Forsyte II Livro 1 1 exemplaar
Dincolo 1 exemplaar
Flor sombria 1 exemplaar
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 exemplaar
Forsytein taru 1 exemplaar
Quality,The Consummation 1 exemplaar
Manna (in Law in Lit) 1 exemplaar
A stoic and the apple tree 1 exemplaar
The Man of Property (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1) 1 exemplaar
The Juryman 1 exemplaar
Best of John Galsworthy (boxed set of 2 volumes) 1 exemplaar
A nova geração - A saga dos Forsytes - Livro 3 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Galsworthy, John
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Sinjohn, John (pseudonym)
- Geboortedatum
- 1867-08-14
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1933-01-31
- Graflocatie
- Cremated
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- brain tumor
- Woonplaatsen
- Bury, West Sussex, England, UK
- Opleiding
- New College, Oxford University (BA|1889)
Harrow School
Saugeen - Beroepen
- novelist
dramatist
playwright
barrister - Organisaties
- Lincoln's Inn (1890)
International PEN Club - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1932)
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The Forsyte Saga in 18th-19th Century Britain (december 2017)
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