7 best short stories by John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright, who won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. He came from a newly rich upper middle class commercial family. His works mainly dealt with the social class system prevalent at that time. He especially concentrated on the upper middle class to which his own family belonged. Although he treated his characters sympathetically, he highlighted their narrow-minded snobbishness and suffocating moral values.
This selection chosen by the critic August Nemocontains the following stories:

- The First and Last
- A Stoic
- The Apple Tree
- The Juryman
- Indian Summer of a Forsyte
- The Hedonist
- Buttercup Night

Über John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy was born in 1867. An early encounter with Joseph Conrad helped inspire him to write, and he went on to emerge as one of the most widely read novelists of his day, a reputation standing the test of time. He was elected the first president of International PEN, the association of writers, in 1912. He is best remembered for his trilogy The Forsyte Saga, which clinched his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. He died in 1933, aged 65.


Verlag:

Tacet Books

Veröffentlicht:

2020

Druckseiten:

ca. 294

Sprache:

English

Medientyp:

eBook


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