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John Galsworthy

Born

in Kingston, Surrey, The United Kingdom

August 14, 1867

Died

January 31, 1933

Genre

Fiction, Theatre

Influences

Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turg ...more

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Literary career of English novelist and playwright John Galsworthy, who used John Sinjohn as a pseudonym, 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 "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga."
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Average rating: 4.1 · 44,487 ratings · 3,282 reviews · 2,489 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3) 4.19 avg rating — 20,973 ratings — published 1921 — 251 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man of Property (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,346 ratings — published 1906 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Chancery (The Forsyte Chronicles, #2) 4.23 avg rating — 2,022 ratings — published 1920 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Let (The Forsyte Chronicles, #3) 4.22 avg rating — 1,920 ratings — published 1921 — 251 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The White Monkey (The Forsyte Chronicles, #4) 4.08 avg rating — 1,195 ratings — published 1924 — 144 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Modern Comedy (The Forsyte Chronicles, #4-6) 4.32 avg rating — 924 ratings — published 1922 — 89 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indian Summer of a Forsyte (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1.5) 4.27 avg rating — 875 ratings — published 1918 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swan Song (The Forsyte Chronicles, #6) 4.28 avg rating — 813 ratings — published 1928 — 156 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silver Spoon (The Forsyte Chronicles, #5) 4.03 avg rating — 835 ratings — published 1926 — 190 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forsyte Saga Volume Three (The Forsyte Chronicles, #7-9) 4.32 avg rating — 589 ratings — published 1931 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by John Galsworthy

The Forsyte Chronicles (9 books)
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John Galsworthy

4.16 avg rating — 38,082 ratings

The Forsyte Saga (3 books)
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John Galsworthy

4.16 avg rating — 32,222 ratings

A Modern Comedy (4 books)
by

John Galsworthy

4.17 avg rating — 3,879 ratings

End of the Chapter (3 books)
by

John Galsworthy

4.09 avg rating — 1,854 ratings

Модерна комедија (1 book)
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John Galsworthy,

Свето Серафимов (Translator)

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings

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“Life calls the tune, we dance.”
― John Galsworthy

tags: choice, determinism, fate, free, freedom, will

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“It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.”
― John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga

tags: meaning, nature, spring, yearning

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“Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!”
― John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga

tags: love, passion

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Polls

2014 Third Quarter Long Read Elimination Poll

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

20 votes, 12.3%

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

17 votes, 10.4%

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

15 votes, 9.2%

The Iliad by Homer

13 votes, 8.0%

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

12 votes, 7.4%

Middlemarch by George Eliot

11 votes, 6.7%

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

10 votes, 6.1%

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9 votes, 5.5%

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

9 votes, 5.5%

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

5 votes, 3.1%

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

5 votes, 3.1%

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

5 votes, 3.1%

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

5 votes, 3.1%

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

4 votes, 2.5%

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

4 votes, 2.5%

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

4 votes, 2.5%

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

3 votes, 1.8%

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

3 votes, 1.8%

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

2 votes, 1.2%

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

2 votes, 1.2%

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

2 votes, 1.2%

U.S.A. by John Dos Passos

1 vote, 0.6%

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

1 vote, 0.6%

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

1 vote, 0.6%

A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

0 votes, 0.0%

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

0 votes, 0.0%

The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

0 votes, 0.0%

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

0 votes, 0.0%

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

0 votes, 0.0%

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

0 votes, 0.0%

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