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John Galsworthy

Also known as John Sinjohn

English novelist and playwright (1867–1933)

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John Galsworthy was a male author from the United Kingdom. He was born on 4 August 1867 and died on 31 January 1933. He wrote under the pseudonym John Sinjohn. His notable works include Man of Property, The inn of tranquility, The Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey, 1928, A motley, and Bit O' Love.

Galsworthy was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Nobel Literature collection. He received one Nobel Prize. His writing has been referenced by 1,443 other encyclopedia articles. He is associated with similar artists such as Ed McBain, Jára Cimrman, Graham Greene, Charles Dickens, and Georges Simenon.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 4 August 1867
Died: 31 January 1933
Works: 2207

Top works

Man of Property (Adaptation, Upper Level)
The inn of tranquility
The Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey, 1928
A motley
Bit O' Love

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1867-08-14
Active to: 1933-01-31

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 114
Total plays: 2,689

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Ed McBainJára CimrmanGraham GreeneCharles DickensGeorges Simenon

John Galsworthy OM ( /ˈɡɔːlzwɜrði/; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906–1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. John Galsworthy was born at Kingston Hill in Surrey, England into an established wealthy family, the son of John and Blanche Bailey (née Bartleet) Galsworthy. His large Kingston upon Thames estate is now the site of three schools: Marymount International School <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Galsworthy">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,416x
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The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,119x

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Quotes

“The world's a fine place for those who go out to take it; there's lots of unknown stuff in it yet. I'll fill your lap, my pretty, so full of treasures that you shan't know yourself. A man wasn't meant to sit at home...”
“Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.”
“When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing — deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.”
“Life was to be lived — not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love — to be enjoyed!”
“It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.”
“Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men — all this was precious to her beyond everything.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1932
“for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga”

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to John Galsworthy, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

John Galsworthy (/ˈɡɔːlzwɜːrði/; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called The Forsyte Saga (1906, 1920, 1921), and two later trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Born to a prosperous upper-middle-class family, Galsworthy was destined for a career as a lawyer, but found it uncongenial and turned instead to writing. He was thirty before his first book was published in 1897, and did not achieve real success until 1906, when The Man of Property, the first of his novels about the Forsyte family was published. In the same year his first play, The Silver Box was staged in London. As a dramatist, he became known for plays with a social message, reflecting, among other themes, the struggle of workers against exploitation, the use of solitary confinement in prisons, the repression of women, jingoism and the politics and morality of war.

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John Galsworthy