John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (Kingston Hill, August 14th 1867 - London, January 31st 1933) is a Romancier and British Dramaturge .

Biography

Resulting from an easy family, he studies the right to Oxford. Graduate in 1890, it does not practice however. Indeed, the friendship which binds it to Joseph Conrad pushes it to write.

Its first play, The Silver Box (1906), becomes a success. It makes it follow off immediately The Man Property (1906), first of the Forsyte trilogy. However, it published several other novels of which The Island Pharisees (1904) and much of parts. Most famous include Strife (1909) and The Skin Game (1920).

Its most known work is the saga of Forsyte, a series of novels published between 1906 and 1921. This trilogy, fresco of the British company, is made up of The Man off Property (1906), has Modern Comedy and End off the Chapter .

He is prize winner of the Nobel Prize of literature in 1932.

The following year, a brain tumor carries it. It rests today with the cemetery Highgate of London.

A good portion of its work conceals a social comment, concentrating particularly on the British system of class. The woman with the unhappy marriage is also another recurrent theme.

Partial bibliography

1897 From the Furnace Winds
1904 The Island Pharisees
1906 The Silver Box; The Man off Property
1909 Strife
1920 The Skin Range
1924 The White Monkey ( the white monkey )
1926 The Silver Spoon ( the money spoon)
1928 Swan Song ( song of the swan )

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