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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 · 41,813 ratings · 2,974 reviews · 2,077 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3) 4.18 avg rating — 20,339 ratings — published 1921 — 216 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) 3.99 avg rating — 4,875 ratings — published 1906 — 492 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) 4.24 avg rating — 1,791 ratings — published 1920 — 211 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 — 1,731 ratings — published 1921 — 239 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) 4.09 avg rating — 1,104 ratings — published 1924 — 140 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 — 869 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) 4.26 avg rating — 785 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) 4.27 avg rating — 755 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) 4.02 avg rating — 774 ratings — published 1926 — 188 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) 4.34 avg rating — 555 ratings — published 1931 — 54 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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4.16 avg rating — 35,935 ratings

The Forsyte Saga (3 books)
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4.16 avg rating — 30,515 ratings

A Modern Comedy (4 books)
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John Galsworthy

4.17 avg rating — 3,599 ratings

End of the Chapter (3 books)
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John Galsworthy

4.11 avg rating — 1,724 ratings

Модерна комедија (1 book)
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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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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

16 votes, 24.6%

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15 votes, 23.1%

The Iliad by Homer

12 votes, 18.5%

Silas Marner by George Eliot

9 votes, 13.8%

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

6 votes, 9.2%

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

4 votes, 6.2%

Lust for Life by Irving Stone

2 votes, 3.1%

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

1 vote, 1.5%

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