John Galsworthy (1867 – 1933)
Born
in
Kingston
Hill,
Surrey,
England.
He
studied
at
Oxford.
He
was
awarded
by
the
Nobel
Prize
for
Literature
in
1932.
He
wrote
The
Forsyte
Saga
(1906-1928),
Strife
(1909),
Justice
(1910),
The
Skin
Game
(1920).
'The Forsyte Saga'
Those privileged to be present at a family festival of the Forsytes have seen that charming and instructive sight--an upper middle-class family in full plumage. But whosoever of these favoured persons has possessed the gift of psychological analysis (a talent without monetary value and properly ignored by the Forsytes), has witnessed a spectacle, not only delightful in itself, but illustrative of an obscure human problem. In plainer words, he has gleaned from a gathering of this family--no branch of which had a liking for the other, between no three members of whom existed anything worthy of the name of sympathy--evidence of that mysterious concrete tenacity which renders a family so formidable a unit of society, so clear a reproduction of society in miniature…
