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	John Galsworthy
		Galsworthy was a representative of the literary tradition which has regarded the novel as a lawful instrument of social propaganda.
		His father, John Galsworthy, was a lawyer and director of several companies, and mother, the former Blanche Bartleet, daughter of a Midlands manufacturer.
		Galsworthy wrote it originally in the first person, then in the third, and revised it again before it was published, but its final version was not finished until 1908.
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		John Galsworthy (1867-1933) Examination of the works of English novelist/playwright John Galsworthy, plus links to all of his works currently in print.
		John Galsworthy Nobel Prize for Literature 1932 - Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Member of the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy.
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		Born at Kingston Hill in Surrey, England, Galsworthy was educated at Harrow and New College, Oxford, training as a barrister.
		This remains by far his best-known work, but in his lifetime he published several other novels, including The Island Pharisees (1904) and many plays, the best-known of which are Strife (1909) and The Skin Game (1920).
		Much of Galsworthy's work may be seen as social commentary, focusing especially on the British class system.
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	John Galsworthy - Wikipedia
		Als Sohn wohlhabender Eltern besuchte Galsworthy eine bekannte Privatschule in Harrow.
		Galsworthys bekannteste Werke sind bis heute die Romanreihe The Forsyte Saga sowie deren Fortsetzungen A Modern Comedy und End Of The Chapter.
		Galsworthys Romane zeichnen sich durch lebendige Charaktere, Stilreinheit, geschickte Dialogführung und (durch ihre einfache, aber effektive Konstruktion) gute Lesbarkeit aus.
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	John Galsworthy - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about John Galsworthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Galsworthy first achieved recognition with The Silver Box and The Man of Property (1906), the first instalment of the Forsyte Saga series, which also includes In Chancery (1920) and To Let (1921).
		Galsworthy was born in Kingston Hill, Surrey, and studied law at Oxford.
		In 1897 Galsworthy published a book of stories, From the Four Winds, under the name John Sinjohn; it was followed by the novels Jocelyn (1898), Villa Rubein (1900), and A Man of Devon (1901).
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	John GALSWORTHY - Vikipedio
		John GALSWORTHY [ĝon GOLzverzi] (naskiĝis la 14an de aŭgusto, 1867, mortis la 31an de januaro, 1933) estis angla verkisto kaj dramisto.
		Studinte juron en Oxford kaj laborante kiel advokato John Galsworthy komencis verki hobie kiam li havis 28 jarojn.
		En 1932 GALSWORTHY estis honorata per la Premio Nobel de Literaturo.
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	John Galsworthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Galsworthy 1867-1933 was an English novelist and playwright.
		John Galsworthy is almost alone among modern writers in the possession of a genius, which in the most exact sense of that admirable word, can only be described as the genius of a gentleman.
		Galsworthy's habitual mood is at once the cause of certain fragilities and betrayals in the mass and weight of his art and the cause of the indignant pity which evokes some of his finest touches.
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	John Galsworthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Galsworthy (August 14 1867 – January 31, 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.
		Born at in Surrey, England into an established wealthy family, Galsworthy attended Harrow and New College, Oxford, training as a barrister.
		This remains by far his best-known work, but in his lifetime he published several other novels, including The Island Pharisees (1904) and many plays, the best-known of which include Strife (1909) and The Skin Game (1920).
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	MSN Encarta - John Galsworthy
		Galsworthy, John (1867-1933), English novelist and playwright, who was one of the most popular English novelists and dramatists of the early 20th century.
		The Forsyte story was continued by Galsworthy in The White Monkey (1924), The Silver Spoon (1926), and Swan Song (1928), which were published together under the title A Modern Comedy (1929).
		Galsworthy was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in literature.
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	John Galsworthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Galsworthy (August 14, 1867 – January 31, 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.
		The latter was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummings, William Hartnell.
		Villa Rubein, 1900 (as John Sinjohn) - Punainen huvila
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	Alibris: John Galsworthy
		The Forsyte Saga is John Galsworthy's monumental chronicle of the lives of the moneyed Forsytes, a family whose values are constantly at war with its passions.
		John Galsworthy (1867-1933) devoted virtually his entire professional career to creating a fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians- the Forsytes.
		Galsworthy's story of middle class bohemians is a satire of bourgeois complacency and artistic aspiration.
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	Galsworthy, John
		Galsworthy's family, of Devonshire farming stock traceable to the 16th century, had made a comfortable fortune in property in the 19th century.
		Galsworthy is remembered for this evocation of Victorian and Edwardian upper-middle-class life and for his creation of Soames Forsyte, a dislikable character who nevertheless compels the reader's sympathy.
		Galsworthy's life and writings are examined in H.V. Marrot, The Life and Letters of John Galsworthy (1935, reissued 1973); Dudley Barker, The Man of Principle: A View of John Galsworthy (1963); Catherine Dupré, John Galsworthy (1976); Sanford Sternlicht, John Galsworthy (1987), an introduction; and James Gindin, John Galsworthy's Life and Art (1987).
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	AllRefer.com - John Galsworthy (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature, he is best remembered for his series of novels tracing the history of the wealthy Forsyte family from the 1880s to the 1920s.
		Of an old and rich family, Galsworthy spent his youth in relative leisure, studied at Oxford, was called to the bar in 1890, and in 1894 began a period of extensive travel.
		Galsworthy also wrote a series of dramas concerned with various social problems.
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	John Galsworthy - Biography
		John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was educated at Harrow and studied law at New College, Oxford.
		Galsworthy did not immediately continue it; fifteen years and with them the First World War intervened until he resumed work on the history of the Forsytes with In Chancery (1920) and To Let (1921).
		Galsworthy's reaction o the First World War found its expression in The Mob (1914), in which the voice of a statesman is drowned in the madness of the war-hungry masses; and in enmity of the two families of The Skin Game (1920).
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	Russell Baker + John Galsworthy
		Galsworthy took to travel and, in 1893 met the novelist Joseph Conrad —; afterward deciding on writing as a career.
		Galsworthy chose to refuse knighthood in 1917 because he believed that writers should not accept titles.
		It was John Galsworthy who said, "Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands — a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith."
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	Nobel Prize in Literature 1932 - Presentation Speech
		At that time Galsworthy was himself a cosmopolite returned home, prepared to fight against the old capitalistic aristocratic society with about the same program as Bernard Shaw, although the Englishman, contrary to the Irishman who fought with intellectual arms, above all aimed at capturing feeling and imagination.
		Although on the whole Galsworthy's plays cannot be rated artistically with his novels, they confirm quite as plainly how strongly he sticks to his early ideal of liberty, that which in Shelley put on the wings and flames of dawn.
		Galsworthy has unfortunately been prevented by illness from being here today, as he had wished, to receive personally the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1932, it will now be delivered to the representative of Great Britain here present, Minister Clark Kerr.
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	John Galsworthy
		Galsworthy was a representative of the literary tradition which has regarded the novel as an instrument of social debate.
		Galsworthy wrote it originally in the first person, then in the third, and revised it again, but its final version was not finished until 1908.
		Her previous unhappy marriage with Galsworthy's cousin formed the basis for the novel THE MAN OF PROPERTY (1906), which began the novel sequence to be known as The Forsyte Saga and established Galsworthy's reputation as an important writer.
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	Masterpiece Theatre \| The Forsyte Saga, Series I \| Essays + Interviews \| John Galsworthy
		Born at Kingston Hill in Surrey to a wealthy solicitor and a Midlands manufacturer's daughter, John Galsworthy spent his childhood in the very sort of upper-middle-class family he would one day skewer in his novels.
		Her previous, unhappy marriage to Galsworthy's cousin, Arthur, formed the basis for The Man of Property (1906), the novel that was to become the first installment of The Forsyte Saga, his epic chronicle of three generations of the British middle-class.
		While Galsworthy had at first cast a jaundiced eye on the world of his novels, with age he came to identify with it, to the point that he began to sympathize with Soames Forsyte.
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	John Galsworthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born at Kingston Hill in Surrey England into an established wealthy family Galsworthy Harrow and New College Oxford training as a barrister.
		As with many of the Forsythe chronicles, the theme is one of how to maintain social position in the face of actual or perceived scandal.
		John Galsworthy's "The Japanese Quince": A Study Guide from Gale's "Short Stories for Students"
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	John Galsworthy - neue und benutzte Bücher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Galsworthy erhielt 1932 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.) Halbleineneinband, 400 Seiten, Standardbuchformat.
		Frankfurt a.M. ; Hamburg : Fischer Bücherei, 1958; O-Titel: The Patrician Roman / John Galsworthy.
		Galsworthy, John Schalit, Leon - Über den Strom / John Galsworthy.
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	JOHN GALSWORTHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Galsworthys Romane zeichnen sich durch lebendige Charaktere, Stilreinheit, geschickte Dialogführung und (durch relativ einfache, aber effektive Konstruktion bedingte) Lesbarkeit aus.
		Vom umfangreichen Schaffen des Autors wird wohl die Forsyte-Saga auch der Nachwelt als ein Klassiker der modernen Literatur erhalten bleiben.
		Galsworthy amtierte viele Jahre als Vorsitzender des PEN.
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	John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
		Galsworthy has reaffirmed the existence of the common man; an individual long ignored upon the English stage.
		Galsworthy is as fair as ever to individuals, but he attacks deliberately a part of the social system that they have created.
		Galsworthy's Falder does not fight at all, and he dies like a rat in a trap.
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	John Galsworthy
		Educated at Harrow and New College, Oxford, Galsworthy was called to the bar in 1890, but instead decided to become a writer.
		Galsworthy was also recruited by Charles Masterman, the head of the War Propaganda Bureau (WPB), to write material on behalf of the British government.
		Galsworthy was now a highly successful author and he was able to purchase a 15-room mansion at Bury in Sussex.
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	THE FORSYTE SAGA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Galsworthy was just under forty when in 1906 he published a novel called
		Galsworthy finished this fine novel, he had no intention of going on with the history of the family.
		Galsworthy has published several other novels dealing with the family.
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	John Galsworthy's Essay, "A Portrait." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For the Duke of Devonshire and Lord Salisbury he had respect without enthusiasm; and conceived for John Bright a great admiration as soon as he was dead.
		The expressions: "Just like John, the careful fellow!" "Just like Sil, reckless beggar!" were always on their lips; for like all their generation they were sparing of encomium; and great, indeed, must have been their emotion before they would show their feelings.
		Dear as they were to each other's hearts, they never talked together of spiritual things, they never spoke in generalities, but gravely smoking their cigars, discussed their acquaintances, investments, wine, their nephews and grandchildren, and the affairs of the State - condemning the advertising fashion in which everything was now done.
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	John Galsworthy Biography / Biography of John Galsworthy Main Biography
		The English novelist and playwright John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was one of the most popular writers of the early 20th century.
		Born on Aug. 14, 1867, in Coombe, Surrey, at the height of the Victorian era, John Galsworthy was educated at Harrow and New College, Oxford.
		As his popularity increased, Galsworthy published other novels of the Forsyte series: Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918), In Chancery (1920), Awakening (1920), and To Let (1921).
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