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  <name><![CDATA[John Galsworthy]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright whose literary career spanned the Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian eras.

In addition to his prolific literary status, Galsworthy was also a renowned social activist. He was an outspoken advocate for the women's suffrage movement, prison reform and animal rights.   Galsworthy was the president of PEN, an organization that sought to promote international cooperation through literature.

John Galsworthy was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 &quot;for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in [book:The Forsyte Saga].&quot;]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Emile Zola]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Kingston, Surrey</hometown>  <born_at>08/14/1867</born_at>  <died_at>01/31/1933</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Forsyte Saga]]></title>
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  <average_rating>4.13</average_rating>
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  <published>1921</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Man of Property: The Forsyte Saga]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Galsworthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.90</average_rating>
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  <published>1906</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Forsyte Saga: Volume II]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Galsworthy]]></name>
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  <published>1920</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The White Monkey (The Forsyte Saga)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Galsworthy]]></name>
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  <published>1924</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[End of the Chapter: The Forsyte Chronicles Volume 3: 7. Maid in Waiting, 8. Flowering Wilderness, and, 9. Over the River]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[John Galsworthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.90</average_rating>
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  <published>1960</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Awakening &amp; to Let (The Forsyte Saga, Volume 3)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[John Galsworthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.38</average_rating>
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  <title><![CDATA[Swan Song]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Galsworthy]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Silver Spoon]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Galsworthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
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  <published>1926</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles 8)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Galsworthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.17</average_rating>
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  <published>1932</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Indian Summer of a Forsyte (The Forsyte Saga, Volume 2)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[John Galsworthy]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.30</average_rating>
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  <published>1918</published>  
  
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