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John Galsworthy OM (August 14 1867 – January 31, 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906 - 1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932.
Galsworthy was born at Kingston Hill in Surrey, England into an established wealthy family, the son of John and Blanche (nee Bailey) Galsworthy. He attended Harrow and New College, Oxford, training as a barrister and was called to the bar in 1890. However, he was not keen to begin practising law and instead travelled abroad to look after the family's shipping business interests. During these travels he met Joseph Conrad, then the first mate of a sailing-ship moored in the harbour of Adelaide, Australia, and the two future novelists became close friends. In 1895 Galsworthy began an affair with Ada Nemesis Pearson, the wife of one of his cousins. After her divorce the pair eventually married on 23 September 1905 and stayed together until John death in 1933.
From the Four Winds was Galsworthy's first published work in 1897, a collection of short stories. These, and several subsequent works, were published under the pen name John Sinjohn and it would not be until The Island Pharisees (1904) that he would begin publishing under his own name, probably owing to the death of his father. His first play, The Silver Box (1906) became a success, and he followed it up with The Man of Property (1906), the first in the Forsyte trilogy. Although he continued writing both plays and novels it was as a playwright he was mainly appreciated at the time. Along with other writers of the time such as Shaw his plays addressed the class system and social issues, two of the best known being Strife (1909) and The Skin Game (1920).
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Awakening and To Let - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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Five Tales - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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Four Short Plays - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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Fraternity - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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Man of Property - Provides a biography of the Nobel Prize winner as well as the full-text of this work.
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Strife - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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t's Progress - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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The Dark Flower - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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The Eldest Son - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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The First and the Last - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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The Foundations - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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The Freelands - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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The Fugitive - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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The Little Dream - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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The Skin Game - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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Villa Rubein, and Other Stories - Etext at Project Gutenberg.
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