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2) To let
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The final chapter in the saga of a once-wealthy English family tormented by the sins of their past. Old loves threaten to jeopardize a family's future in the final installment of the Forsyte Saga. Part social satire, part melodrama, this captivating novel brings to fascinating life author John Galsworthy's preoccupations with class, gender, and morality. Soames and Irene Forsyte have finally separated after years of turmoil. Irene is now wed to...
3) Justice
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Justice is a 1910 play by the British writer John Galsworthy. It was part of a campaign to improve conditions in British prisons. Winston Churchill attended an early performance of the play at the Duke of York's Theatre in London. The play opens in the offices of James How & Sons, solicitors. A young woman appears at the door, with children in tow, asking to see the junior clerk, William Falder, on a personal matter. She is Ruth Honeywill, Falder's...
4) Five Tales
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Project Gutenberg
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Excerpt: "It was a dark room at that hour of six in the evening, when just the single oil reading-lamp under its green shade let fall a dapple of light over the Turkey carpet; over the covers of books taken out of the bookshelves, and the open pages of the one selected; over the deep blue and gold of the coffee service on the little old stool with its Oriental embroidery. Very dark in the winter, with drawn curtains, many rows of leather-bound volumes,...
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Project Gutenberg
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Freelands" by John Galsworthy. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Dark Flower" by John Galsworthy. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
7) Joy
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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This 1909 "Play on the Letter 'I'"-as the subtitle puts it-is about a young woman, the Joy of the title. After the separation of her parents, she discovers that her mother inhabits a wider and wilder world than she had suspected, and Joy must come to terms with it one way or another.
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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In the novel Saint's Progress, published in 1919, Galsworthy wrestles with issues of the Great War. What was really being fought for: love as the guiding principle of life, a balance between Might is Right and Right is Might or a basic belief in God?
9) Beyond
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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The daughter of an ex-Major and his now-dead mistress, Gyp becomes enchanted by Fiorsen, a Swedish violin player with wild cat-like eyes. Gyp's hypersensitivity comes into play when the romantic yet unstable Fiorsen asks her to marry him in this 1917 novel.
10) The Fugitive
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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This 1913 play is a study of that peculiar English malady: good form. Clare Dedmond, the unhappy wife of George Dedmond, longs for a life of freedom and art. A friendship with the novelist Malise seems to offer her the chance to escape the deadening Dedmond household.... but at a great cost.
11) The Patrician
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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In its review of this 1911 novel about conflicts arising from the rigid class prejudices of upper-caste English society, the New York Times singled out Galsworthy's heroine for special praise, calling her "at once splendid, simple, crowned with happiness, and somehow caged and tragically looking out between gilded bars."
12) Fraternity
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Widely considered one of Galsworthy's best novels, Fraternity is filled with memorable and sympathetic characters, including the beautiful model Ivy Barton, the painter Bianca Dallison, the utopian dreamer Mr. Stone, and the working-class Hughes family. One contemporary critic called Fraternity "as near being a perfect work of art as any novel ever written."
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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This 1907 novel-later specifically cited by the Nobel Committee-is set in an English country house that stands as a microcosm of genteel society, where Victorian mores are coming into conflict with the realities of modern industrial life. When young George Pendyce falls for a "common" woman, the cracks in his family life are revealed.
14) Strife
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Strife by John Galsworthy
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15) The Eldest Son
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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This 1912 play focuses on one of Galsworthy's perennial subjects: the injustice inherent in an economic and political system that privileges the rich over the poor, in this case, in the realm of marriage. Through a plot involving two forced marriages, Galsworthy exposes middle, and upper-class hypocrisy.
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by the English author John Galsworthy, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of a large upper-middle-class English family that is similar to Galsworthy's. Only a few generations removed from their farmer ancestors, its members are keenly aware of their status...
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