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John Galsworthy (1867–1933)

Auteur van De Forsyte Sage

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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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De Forsyte Sage (1922) 2,505 exemplaren
De Forsyte Sage 1 (1906) 1,041 exemplaren
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To Let (1921) 487 exemplaren
Swan Song (1928) 341 exemplaren
The White Monkey (1924) 323 exemplaren
End of the Chapter (1934) 315 exemplaren
The Silver Spoon (1926) 291 exemplaren
Maid In Waiting (1931) 219 exemplaren
Flowering Wilderness (1932) 204 exemplaren
Over The River (1933) 191 exemplaren
On Forsyte 'Change (1930) 133 exemplaren
The Country House (1907) 101 exemplaren
The Dark Flower (1913) 84 exemplaren
The Patrician (1900) 82 exemplaren
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Beyond (1917) 66 exemplaren
The Silver Spoon and Passers By (1929) 65 exemplaren
Fraternity (1909) 53 exemplaren
The Island Pharisees (1926) 53 exemplaren
Strife (1909) 41 exemplaren
The Apple Tree (1918) 40 exemplaren
The Plays of John Galsworthy (1929) 39 exemplaren
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Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918) 34 exemplaren
Five Tales (1777) 33 exemplaren
Villa Rubein (1900) 32 exemplaren
Awakening (1920) 31 exemplaren
Justice (1910) 30 exemplaren
De Freelands (1915) 29 exemplaren
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Plays (1909) 28 exemplaren
Loyalties (1922) 26 exemplaren
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The First and the Last (1918) 23 exemplaren
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The Apple Tree and Other Stories (1988) 20 exemplaren
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Jocelyn (1898) 19 exemplaren
The Pigeon (1912) 16 exemplaren
Escape (1926) 16 exemplaren
The Fugitive (1913) 16 exemplaren
The Burning Spear (1950) 13 exemplaren
Three Novels of Love (1929) 13 exemplaren
The Little Man (1915) 13 exemplaren
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Three Novels of Society (1929) 12 exemplaren
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Windows (1922) 10 exemplaren
A Family Man (1921) 10 exemplaren
Joy (1907) 10 exemplaren
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Forsytes, Pendyces and others (1925) 9 exemplaren
The Little Dream (1911) 9 exemplaren
Another sheaf (2010) 8 exemplaren
Tatterdemalion (2011) 8 exemplaren
The Inn of Tranquillity (1916) 8 exemplaren
Worshipful society (1932) 7 exemplaren
Soames and the Flag (1930) 7 exemplaren
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The Foundations (1917) 5 exemplaren
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A commentary (2022) 5 exemplaren
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Old English (1924) 5 exemplaren
Censorship And Art (2004) 5 exemplaren
Memories (1933) 4 exemplaren
Stoik (2016) 4 exemplaren
Förmöget folk : Bojor (1986) 4 exemplaren
Collected Works (2007) 4 exemplaren
Passers By (1927) 4 exemplaren
The Show (1925) 4 exemplaren
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Galsworthy: Five Plays (1999) 3 exemplaren
A Silent Wooing (1929) 3 exemplaren
Die letzte Karte. Novellen (1929) 3 exemplaren
Obras escogidas (1967) 3 exemplaren
Punch and Go (1921) 3 exemplaren
The Sun (1921) 3 exemplaren
Defeat (1921) 3 exemplaren
The Forest (1924) 3 exemplaren
Hall-Marked (1921) 3 exemplaren
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Uncollected Forsyte (1986) 2 exemplaren
Meistererzählungen (1984) 2 exemplaren
Moods, Songs and Doggerels (2011) 2 exemplaren
Die Fehde. Vier Erzählungen (1938) 2 exemplaren
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Landa in fiore. 2 exemplaren
H3: IAppigionasi 2 exemplaren
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Att Hyra Forsytesagan 2 exemplaren
A Man of Devon (1901) 2 exemplaren
Новеллы 2 exemplaren
Ten famous plays. (1976) 2 exemplaren
Plays Sixth Series (1926) 2 exemplaren
Untitled 2 exemplaren
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Jenseits. (1966) 1 exemplaar
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Denkwürdige Tage 1 exemplaar
Hand to Earth 1 exemplaar
I bojor ; Gryning: mellanspel (2022) 1 exemplaar
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Saga dei Forsyte III
 
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Saga dei Forsyte II
 
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Saga dei Forsyte I
 
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Enjoyable insofar as it gives me more insight in the characters from tv-series The Forsyte Saga (2002), which are all relatively flat. This novel is the first of three books upon which the series is based. I love how the book tries to explain the emotions and considerations of all characters (and it turns out there are even more Forsyte family members than appear in the television series) involved in the plot. Galsworthy occasionally goes of into a philosophical rant about the London fog, leaves on trees, or the mysteries of human nature. These tangents are hard for me to follow. Another reason the book is difficult to read is that parts of the plot are communicated implicitly to the reader, by characters alluding to events in the most circumspect manner possible -- the characters being British and Victorian and true Forsytes. I've not decided whether I will continue with book 2. On the one hand, the book feels like bonus material for one of my favorite costume dramas. On the other hand, the writing style is not superenjoyable.… (meer)
 
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