John Galsworthy (1867–1933)
Autor(a) de The Forsyte Saga
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por John Galsworthy
The Apple Tree: Tales from the Caravan, the Assembled Collection (Nonsuch Classics) (2004) 15 exemplares
Galsworthy Compact Edition : 6 Volume Set - The Forsyte Saga; The White Monkey; The Silver Spoon; Swan Song; Caravan;… (1929) 9 exemplares
Addresses in America: 1919 4 exemplares
Die Ersten und die Letzten . Ein Mann aus Devon — Autor — 4 exemplares
Concerning the Palming of Cards 3 exemplares
A Long Ago Affair: Tales from Caravan, The Assembled Collection (Nonsuch Classics) (2005) 3 exemplares
THE FORSYTE SAGA VOLUME II & III 3 exemplares
Justice and Other Plays (Tauchnitz Edition Collection of British and American Authors Vol. 4362) 3 exemplares
The Forsyte saga [DVD] 3 exemplares
Satires and a commentary 3 exemplares
The Burning Spear / Villa Rubein 3 exemplares
John Galsworthy: Jenseits - Roman einer Liebe 2 exemplares
Silverskeden Forsytesagan 2 exemplares
Svanesång Forsytesagan 2 exemplares
Att Hyra Forsytesagan 2 exemplares
Landa in fiore. 2 exemplares
H3: IAppigionasi 2 exemplares
The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 1: The Forsyte Saga 2 exemplares
Den Vita Apan Forsytesagan 2 exemplares
Ancella 2 exemplares
Bojor Forsytesagan 2 exemplares
Новеллы 2 exemplares
[unidentified works] 2 exemplares
Four Forsyte Stories 2 exemplares
The Novels, Tales, and Plays of John Galsworthy 2 exemplares
The forest and six short plays (Collection of British authors. Tauchnitz edition) (1928) 2 exemplares
Forsytesagan. Bd 1, Förmöget folk 1 exemplar
Ancella - Landa in fiore 1 exemplar
En man från Devon och andra berättelser 1 exemplar
Kaasaegne komöödia 1 exemplar
Moderní komedie. Kniha III, Labutí zpěv 1 exemplar
Kaasaegne komöödia II 1 exemplar
The Dark Flower. Read by Toby Stephens [CD] 1 exemplar
Als dated Oct 11 1925 1 exemplar
Memories by John Sir Galsworthy (2004-04-10) 1 exemplar
Acme (Modern English Short Stories) 1 exemplar
O Proprietário 1 exemplar
Forsyte'ide saaga III 1 exemplar
Forsyte'ide saaga II 1 exemplar
Forsyte'ide saaga I 1 exemplar
Die Goldenen Äpfel 1 exemplar
Die Forsytes - Das Ende vom Lied 1 exemplar
Forsytesagan. Bd 3, Gryning ; Att hyra 1 exemplar
Plays of John Galsworthy 1 exemplar
Forsytesagan. Bd 4, På Forsytebörsen 1 exemplar
Hand to Earth 1 exemplar
Die forsyie saga 1 exemplar
FLOAREA INTUNECATA 1 exemplar
MAIMUTA ALBA/ COMEDIA MODERNA VOL1 1 exemplar
Forsyte Saga, The - 3 Vols. 1 exemplar
Plays of, The 1 exemplar
CINTECUL LEBEDEI/ COMEDIA MODERNA VOL3 1 exemplar
John Galsworthy: 7 Novels 1 exemplar
FORSYTE SAGA VOL3 1 exemplar
A Family Man and Other Plays 1 exemplar
Mai presus iubirea 1 exemplar
HThe IForsyte saga 1 exemplar
Denkwürdige Tage 1 exemplar
The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy 1 exemplar
Os novos Forsyte 1 exemplar
Floarea întunecată 1 exemplar
La dinastia de los Forsyte 1 exemplar
Venkovské sídlo 1 exemplar
John Galsworthy: Meisternovellen 1 exemplar
LINGURA DE ARGINT COMEDIA MODERNA VOL2 1 exemplar
FORSYTE SAGA VOL1 1 exemplar
FORSYTE SAGA VOL2 1 exemplar
Forsyte Saga, D7 1 exemplar
Forsytein taru. 2 1 exemplar
Modern Komédia 1-2 1 exemplar
A Forsyta- Saga l-ll-lll-lV. 1 exemplar
Der Menschenfischer 1 exemplar
Ikke av denne verden 1 exemplar
John Galsworthy Collection 1 exemplar
Ein Kommentar Menschen und Schatten 1 exemplar
A stoic and the apple tree 1 exemplar
The Juryman 1 exemplar
Manna (in Law in Lit) 1 exemplar
Three tales 1 exemplar
Gesammelte Werke 1 exemplar
The Forsyte Saga/A Modern Comedy 1 exemplar
For love of beasts, 1 exemplar
The bells of peace 1 exemplar
Opere 1 exemplar
A Família Forsyte II Livro 1 1 exemplar
International Thought 1 exemplar
Flor sombria 1 exemplar
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 exemplar
Dincolo 1 exemplar
Forsytein taru 1 exemplar
Meisternovellen 1 exemplar
Quality,The Consummation 1 exemplar
On expression 1 exemplar
Denkwürdige Tage Novellen 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Contribuidor — 109 exemplares
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
A Treasury of the Theatre: From Henrik Ibsen to Eugène Ionesco (1960) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Tales of the Wandering Jew: A Collection of Contemporary and Classic Stories (European Literary Fantasy Anthologies) (1991) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
Contemporary Drama: European, English and Irish, American Plays (1941) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays: A Doll's House, Miss Julie, The Weavers, Mrs Warren's Profession, Three… (2010) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Best Legal Stories — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The Reviewer, Volume II, Numbers 1-6 (October 1921-March 1922) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The Reviewer, Volume II, Number 4 (January, 1922) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
50 seltsame Geschichten — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Rosemary — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Galsworthy, John
- Outros nomes
- Sinjohn, John (pseudonym)
- Data de nascimento
- 1867-08-14
- Data de falecimento
- 1933-01-31
- Localização do túmulo
- Cremated
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
- Causa da morte
- brain tumor
- Locais de residência
- Bury, West Sussex, England, UK
- Educação
- New College, Oxford University (BA|1889)
Harrow School
Saugeen - Ocupações
- novelist
dramatist
playwright
barrister - Organizações
- Lincoln's Inn (1890)
International PEN Club - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1932)
Membros
Discussions
Group Read: The Forsyte Saga em 2018 Category Challenge (Setembro 2021)
The Forsyte Saga em 18th-19th Century Britain (Dezembro 2017)
Group Read for August 2013: The Forsyte Saga em 1001 Books to read before you die (Agosto 2013)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 307
- Also by
- 71
- Membros
- 10,580
- Popularidade
- #2,246
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 197
- ISBN
- 1,337
- Línguas
- 18
- Marcado como favorito
- 25