John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy


Born
in Kingston, Surrey, The United Kingdom
August 14, 1867

Died
January 31, 1933

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


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 · 45,007 ratings · 3,327 reviews · 2,536 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Forsyte Saga (The Forsy...

4.19 avg rating — 21,111 ratings — published 1921 — 251 editions
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The Man of Property (The Fo...

3.99 avg rating — 5,444 ratings — published 1906 — 320 editions
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In Chancery (The Forsyte Ch...

4.23 avg rating — 2,054 ratings — published 1920 — 220 editions
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To Let (The Forsyte Chronic...

4.22 avg rating — 1,948 ratings — published 1921 — 252 editions
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The White Monkey (The Forsy...

4.09 avg rating — 1,200 ratings — published 1924 — 144 editions
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A Modern Comedy (The Forsyt...

4.32 avg rating — 931 ratings — published 1922 — 89 editions
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Indian Summer of a Forsyte ...

4.26 avg rating — 889 ratings — published 1918 — 10 editions
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Swan Song (The Forsyte Chro...

4.28 avg rating — 823 ratings — published 1928 — 155 editions
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The Silver Spoon (The Forsy...

4.02 avg rating — 842 ratings — published 1926 — 192 editions
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The Forsyte Saga Volume Thr...

4.32 avg rating — 592 ratings — published 1931 — 52 editions
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“Life calls the tune, we dance.”
John Galsworthy

“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

“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

Polls

June 2024 Old School Classics Poll

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, 1838, 608 pages
 
  61 votes, 24.2%

As You Like It by William Shakespeare, 1599, 263 pages
 
  59 votes, 23.4%

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, 1907, 304 pages
 
  39 votes, 15.5%

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, `400 BCE, 107 pages
 
  30 votes, 11.9%

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886, 288 pages
 
  28 votes, 11.1%

 
  18 votes, 7.1%

The Man of Property by John Galsworthy, 1906, 364 pages
 
  17 votes, 6.7%

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