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John Galsworthy (1867–1933)

Autor(a) de The Forsyte Saga

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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 Forsyte Saga (1922) 2,502 exemplares
The Man of Property (1906) 1,041 exemplares
In Chancery (1920) 523 exemplares
To Let (1921) 487 exemplares
A Modern Comedy (1929) 475 exemplares
Swan Song (1928) 341 exemplares
The White Monkey (1924) 323 exemplares
End of the Chapter (1934) 314 exemplares
The Silver Spoon (1926) 291 exemplares
Maid In Waiting (1931) 220 exemplares
Flowering Wilderness (1932) 204 exemplares
Over The River (1933) 191 exemplares
The Forsyte Saga / A Modern Comedy (1922) 147 exemplares
On Forsyte 'Change (1930) 133 exemplares
The Country House (1907) 101 exemplares
The Dark Flower (1913) 84 exemplares
The Patrician (1900) 82 exemplares
Caravan (1633) 72 exemplares
Beyond (1917) 66 exemplares
The Silver Spoon and Passers By (1929) 65 exemplares
The Island Pharisees (1926) 53 exemplares
Fraternity (1909) 53 exemplares
In Chancery, and Awakening. (1969) 48 exemplares
Strife (1909) 41 exemplares
The Apple Tree (1918) 39 exemplares
The Plays of John Galsworthy (1929) 39 exemplares
Forsytein taru. 1 (1922) 34 exemplares
Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918) 34 exemplares
Five Tales (1777) 33 exemplares
Villa Rubein (1900) 32 exemplares
Awakening (1920) 31 exemplares
Justice (1910) 30 exemplares
The Freelands (1915) 29 exemplares
Plays (1909) 28 exemplares
Two Forsyte Interludes (1927) 28 exemplares
Loyalties (1922) 26 exemplares
Saint's progress (1919) 25 exemplares
The Silver Box (1906) 24 exemplares
The First and the Last (1918) 23 exemplares
Representative plays (1924) 20 exemplares
The Skin Game (1920) 20 exemplares
The Apple Tree and Other Stories (1988) 20 exemplares
Jocelyn (1898) 19 exemplares
The Mob (1914) 19 exemplares
Escape (1926) 16 exemplares
The Pigeon (1912) 16 exemplares
The Fugitive (1913) 16 exemplares
The Little Man (1915) 13 exemplares
Three Novels of Love (1929) 13 exemplares
The Burning Spear (1950) 13 exemplares
Exiled (1929) 12 exemplares
A Bit o' Love (1915) 12 exemplares
Three Novels of Society (1929) 12 exemplares
Six Short Plays (1926) 11 exemplares
Thr Eldest Son (1912) 11 exemplares
Captures (1925) 11 exemplares
A Family Man (1921) 10 exemplares
Windows (1922) 10 exemplares
The Roof (1929) 10 exemplares
Joy (1907) 10 exemplares
Plays (Second Series) (1913) 9 exemplares
The Little Dream (1911) 9 exemplares
Forsytes, Pendyces and others (1925) 9 exemplares
Tatterdemalion (2011) 8 exemplares
Another sheaf (2010) 8 exemplares
The Inn of Tranquillity (1916) 8 exemplares
Worshipful society (1932) 7 exemplares
Soames and the Flag (1930) 7 exemplares
A Motley (1910) 6 exemplares
Works of John Galsworthy (2008) 6 exemplares
A Sheaf (2007) 6 exemplares
Old English (1924) 5 exemplares
A commentary (2022) 5 exemplares
The Foundations (1917) 5 exemplares
Candelabra (1932) 5 exemplares
Ex Libris John Galsworthy (1933) 5 exemplares
Plays : Third Series (1914) 5 exemplares
Censorship And Art (2004) 5 exemplares
The Show (1925) 4 exemplares
Förmöget folk : Bojor (1986) 4 exemplares
Passers By (1927) 4 exemplares
Collected Works (2007) 4 exemplares
Stoik (2016) 4 exemplares
Memories (1933) 4 exemplares
Obras escogidas (1967) 3 exemplares
Die letzte Karte. Novellen (1929) 3 exemplares
A Silent Wooing (1929) 3 exemplares
Four Short Plays (2012) 3 exemplares
Galsworthy: Five Plays (1999) 3 exemplares
The Forest (1924) 3 exemplares
Defeat (1921) 3 exemplares
Punch and Go (1921) 3 exemplares
The Sun (1921) 3 exemplares
Hall-Marked (1921) 3 exemplares
Att Hyra Forsytesagan 2 exemplares
Landa in fiore. 2 exemplares
Die Fehde. Vier Erzählungen (1938) 2 exemplares
H3: IAppigionasi 2 exemplares
Ancella 2 exemplares
Bojor Forsytesagan 2 exemplares
Uncollected Forsyte (1986) 2 exemplares
Новеллы 2 exemplares
A Man of Devon (1901) 2 exemplares
[unidentified works] 2 exemplares
Meistererzählungen (1984) 2 exemplares
Four Forsyte Stories 2 exemplares
Ten famous plays. (1976) 2 exemplares
Moods, Songs and Doggerels (2011) 2 exemplares
Plays Sixth Series (1926) 2 exemplares
O Proprietário 1 exemplar
Jenseits. (1966) 1 exemplar
Broederschap (1909) 1 exemplar
Hand to Earth 1 exemplar
Die forsyie saga 1 exemplar
FLOAREA INTUNECATA 1 exemplar
Plays of, The 1 exemplar
FORSYTE SAGA VOL3 1 exemplar
Mai presus iubirea 1 exemplar
HThe IForsyte saga 1 exemplar
Denkwürdige Tage 1 exemplar
Os novos Forsyte 1 exemplar
Venkovské sídlo 1 exemplar
FORSYTE SAGA VOL1 1 exemplar
FORSYTE SAGA VOL2 1 exemplar
Forsyte Saga, D7 1 exemplar
Author and Critic (1976) 1 exemplar
Forsytein taru. 2 1 exemplar
Studies and Essays (2008) 1 exemplar
Strife and Other Plays (2008) 1 exemplar
The Juryman 1 exemplar
Three tales 1 exemplar
Gesammelte Werke 1 exemplar
The bells of peace 1 exemplar
Quality [short story] (1927) 1 exemplar
Opere 1 exemplar
Flor sombria 1 exemplar
Dincolo 1 exemplar
Forsytein taru 1 exemplar
Meisternovellen 1 exemplar
On expression 1 exemplar
Ten Best Plays (1976) 1 exemplar
Glimpses & Reflections (1937) 1 exemplar
Floarea întunecată (2012) 1 exemplar

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Bambi: A Life in the Woods (1923) — Prefácio, algumas edições2,414 exemplares
Green Mansions (1904) — Prefácio, algumas edições1,713 exemplares
The Fireside Book of Dog Stories (1943) — Contribuidor — 143 exemplares
Trader Horn (1927) — Prefácio, algumas edições116 exemplares
Sixteen Famous British Plays (1942) — Contribuidor — 112 exemplares
Thirty Famous One-Act Plays (1943) — Contribuidor — 110 exemplares
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories (2007) — Contribuidor — 107 exemplares
The Scribner Treasury: 22 Classic Tales (1952) — Contribuidor — 99 exemplares
More Stories to Remember, Volume II (1958) — Contribuidor — 94 exemplares
Laurel British Drama: The Twentieth Century (1965) — Contribuidor, algumas edições88 exemplares
The Treasury of English Short Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
Traveller's Library (1933) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories (1940) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
The Dick Francis Treasury of Great Racing Stories (1990) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
More Stories to Remember, Volumes I & II (1958) — Contribuidor — 57 exemplares
The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense (1981) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Masters of the Modern Short Story (1945) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
The Spanish Farm (1924) — Prefácio, algumas edições42 exemplares
The Lucifer Society (1971) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Great English Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (2005) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Forsyte Saga: The Complete Series (2002) — Original book — 37 exemplares
The Forsythe Saga [1967 TV mini series] (1967) — Original Novels / Interludes — 37 exemplares
Ellery Queen's Book of Mystery Stories by 25 Famous Writers (1952) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
The Oxford Book of English Love Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
The Dick Francis Complete Treasury of Great Racing Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest (1998) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
A Treasury of the Theatre: From Henrik Ibsen to Eugène Ionesco (1960) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories (1998) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Trader Horn: the Ivory Coast in the earlies (1928) — Prefácio, algumas edições22 exemplares
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Cuentos de amor victorianos (2004) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Great English Short Stories (1930) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
Murder at the Races (1995) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
Love Stories (1975) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Contemporary Drama: European, English and Irish, American Plays (1941) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Great Short Novels of the World (1927) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Late Victorian plays, 1890-1914 (1968) 13 exemplares
Law in Action: An Anthology of the Law in Literature (1947) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Contemporary Drama: Nine Plays, American, English, European, (1941) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
The World of Law, Volume I : The Law in Literature (1960) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
England forteller : britiske og irske noveller (1970) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Mystery in the Mainstream: An Anthology of Literary Crimes (1986) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Fiction Goes to Court (1954) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
More Stories to Remember, Volume IV (1958) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Gift Book (1915) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
The Story Survey (1953) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Great Love Scenes from Famous Novels (1943) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
An introduction to drama (1951) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Thirteen Short Stories (1968) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
The Galsworthy Reader (1967) 4 exemplares
The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Johan Bojer, the man and his works (1974) — Contribuidor, algumas edições2 exemplares
Short Stories: The Timeless Collection (Unabridged) (2007) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Best Legal Stories — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Best Crime Stories 3 (1968) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The Reviewer, Volume II, Number 4 (January, 1922) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
50 seltsame Geschichten — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Rosemary — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Short Stories: The Nostalgia Collection (2008) — 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)

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Discussions

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Críticas

Saga dei Forsyte III
 
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NonnaLuisa | 1 outra crítica | Feb 28, 2024 |
Saga dei Forsyte II
 
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Saga dei Forsyte I
 
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NonnaLuisa | 21 outras críticas | Feb 28, 2024 |
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.… (mais)
 
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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

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