Immagine dell'autore.

John Galsworthy (1867–1933)

Autore di La saga dei Forsyte

307+ opere 10,580 membri 197 recensioni 25 preferito

Sull'Autore

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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin

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Opere di John Galsworthy

La saga dei Forsyte (1922) 2,502 copie
Il possidente (1906) 1,041 copie
3: Appigionasi (1921) 487 copie
A Modern Comedy (1929) 475 copie
Swan Song (1928) 341 copie
The White Monkey (1924) 323 copie
End of the Chapter (1934) 314 copie
The Silver Spoon (1926) 291 copie
Landa in fiore: romanzo (1932) 204 copie
Over The River (1933) 191 copie
The Country House (1907) 101 copie
Il fiore oscuro (1913) 84 copie
Il patrizio: romanzo (1900) 82 copie
Caravan (1633) 72 copie
Beyond (1917) 66 copie
The Island Pharisees (1926) 53 copie
Fraternity (1909) 53 copie
Strife (1909) 41 copie
The Apple Tree (1918) 39 copie
Forsytein taru. 1 (1922) 34 copie
Five Tales (1777) 33 copie
Villa Rubein (1900) 32 copie
Awakening (1920) 31 copie
Justice (1910) 30 copie
The Freelands (1915) 29 copie
Plays (1909) 28 copie
Two Forsyte Interludes (1927) 28 copie
Loyalties (1922) 26 copie
Saint's progress (1919) 25 copie
The Silver Box (1906) 24 copie
Il primo e l'ultimo (1918) 23 copie
Representative plays (1924) 20 copie
The Skin Game (1920) 20 copie
Jocelyn (1898) 19 copie
The Mob (1914) 19 copie
Escape (1926) 16 copie
The Pigeon (1912) 16 copie
The Fugitive (1913) 16 copie
The Little Man (1915) 13 copie
Three Novels of Love (1929) 13 copie
The Burning Spear (1950) 13 copie
Exiled (1929) 12 copie
A Bit o' Love (1915) 12 copie
Three Novels of Society (1929) 12 copie
Six Short Plays (1926) 11 copie
Thr Eldest Son (1912) 11 copie
Captures (1925) 11 copie
A Family Man (1921) 10 copie
Windows (1922) 10 copie
The Roof (1929) 10 copie
Joy (1907) 10 copie
Plays (Second Series) (1913) 9 copie
The Little Dream (1911) 9 copie
Tatterdemalion (2011) 8 copie
Another sheaf (2010) 8 copie
The Inn of Tranquillity (1916) 8 copie
Worshipful society (1932) 7 copie
Soames and the Flag (1930) 7 copie
A Motley (1910) 6 copie
Works of John Galsworthy (2008) 6 copie
A Sheaf (2007) 6 copie
Old English (1924) 5 copie
A commentary (2022) 5 copie
The Foundations (1917) 5 copie
Candelabra (1932) 5 copie
Plays : Third Series (1914) 5 copie
Censorship And Art (2004) 5 copie
The Show (1925) 4 copie
Förmöget folk : Bojor (1986) 4 copie
Passers By (1927) 4 copie
Collected Works (2007) 4 copie
Stoik (2016) 4 copie
Memories (1933) 4 copie
Obras escogidas (1967) 3 copie
A Silent Wooing (1929) 3 copie
Four Short Plays (2012) 3 copie
Galsworthy: Five Plays (1999) 3 copie
The Forest (1924) 3 copie
Defeat (1921) 3 copie
Punch and Go (1921) 3 copie
The Sun (1921) 3 copie
Hall-Marked (1921) 3 copie
Ancella 2 copie
Uncollected Forsyte (1986) 2 copie
A Man of Devon (1901) 2 copie
Meistererzählungen (1984) 2 copie
Ten famous plays. (1976) 2 copie
Plays Sixth Series (1926) 2 copie
Jenseits. (1966) 1 copia
Broederschap (1909) 1 copia
Hand to Earth 1 copia
Plays of, The 1 copia
Author and Critic (1976) 1 copia
Studies and Essays (2008) 1 copia
Strife and Other Plays (2008) 1 copia
The Juryman 1 copia
Three tales 1 copia
Quality [short story] (1927) 1 copia
Opere 1 copia
Flor sombria 1 copia
Dincolo 1 copia
On expression 1 copia
Ten Best Plays (1976) 1 copia
Glimpses & Reflections (1937) 1 copia
Floarea întunecată (2012) 1 copia

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Bambi: la vita di un capriolo (1923) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni2,414 copie
Verdi dimore (1904) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni1,713 copie
The Fireside Book of Dog Stories (1943) — Collaboratore — 143 copie
Trader Horn (1927) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni116 copie
Sixteen Famous British Plays (1942) — Collaboratore — 112 copie
Thirty Famous One-Act Plays (1943) — Collaboratore — 110 copie
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories (2007) — Collaboratore — 107 copie
The Scribner Treasury: 22 Classic Tales (1952) — Collaboratore — 99 copie
More Stories to Remember, Volume II (1958) — Collaboratore — 94 copie
Laurel British Drama: The Twentieth Century (1965) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni88 copie
The Treasury of English Short Stories (1985) — Collaboratore — 84 copie
Traveller's Library (1933) — Collaboratore — 70 copie
The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories (1940) — Collaboratore — 66 copie
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998) — Collaboratore — 63 copie
The Dick Francis Treasury of Great Racing Stories (1990) — Collaboratore — 59 copie
More Stories to Remember, Volumes I & II (1958) — Collaboratore — 57 copie
The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense (1981) — Collaboratore — 52 copie
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Collaboratore — 51 copie
Masters of the Modern Short Story (1945) — Collaboratore — 46 copie
The Spanish Farm (1924) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni42 copie
The Lucifer Society (1971) — Collaboratore — 41 copie
Great English Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (2005) — Collaboratore — 39 copie
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Collaboratore — 39 copie
Forsyte Saga: The Complete Series (2002) — Original book — 37 copie
The Forsythe Saga [1967 TV mini series] (1967) — Original Novels / Interludes — 37 copie
The Oxford Book of English Love Stories (1996) — Collaboratore — 35 copie
The Dick Francis Complete Treasury of Great Racing Stories (1989) — Collaboratore — 34 copie
The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest (1998) — Collaboratore — 31 copie
Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories (1998) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
Trader Horn: the Ivory Coast in the earlies (1928) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni22 copie
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Collaboratore — 22 copie
Cuentos de amor victorianos (2004) — Collaboratore — 21 copie
Great English Short Stories (1930) — Collaboratore — 20 copie
Murder at the Races (1995) — Collaboratore — 20 copie
Love Stories (1975) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
Great Short Novels of the World (1927) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
Law in Action: An Anthology of the Law in Literature (1947) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
The World of Law, Volume I : The Law in Literature (1960) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
England forteller : britiske og irske noveller (1970) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Fiction Goes to Court (1954) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
More Stories to Remember, Volume IV (1958) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Gift Book (1915) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
The Story Survey (1953) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Great Love Scenes from Famous Novels (1943) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
An introduction to drama (1951) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Thirteen Short Stories (1968) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
The Galsworthy Reader (1967) 4 copie
The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Johan Bojer, the man and his works (1974) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni2 copie
Short Stories: The Timeless Collection (Unabridged) (2007) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Best Legal Stories — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Best Crime Stories 3 (1968) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
50 seltsame Geschichten — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Rosemary — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Short Stories: The Nostalgia Collection (2008) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Saga dei Forsyte III
 
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