John Galsworthy (1867 ～ 1933)
• Life
• Works
• The Man of Property
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Life
• one of the most prominent of the 20th century
English realistic writers, was born of an upper
middle-class family. He studied law at Oxford, but
after practicing the law for a short time, he turned
to literature.
• In 1905 he married Ada, the divorced wife of his
cousin. He showed deep sympathy for the
unhappy life of Ada's first marriage and reflected
these experiences in his novels.
• he was preoccupied with the social injustice in his
time He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932.
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Main works
 The Forsyte Saga (1922) (the first trilogy)
consists of three novels and two interludes:
The Man of Property (1906)
The Indian Summer of a Forsyte
(Interlude, 1917)
In Chancery(1920)
Awakening (Interlude, 1921)
To Let (1921)
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A Modern Comedy (1929) (the second
trilogy) also consists of three novels and two
interludes:
The White Monkey(1924)
A Silent Wooing(Interlude, 1927)
The Silver Spoon(1926)
Passers-by(Interlude, 1927)
Swan Song(1928)
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28 plays (three of them are of importance)
The Silver Box(1906)
Strife(1909)
Justice(1910)
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