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John Galsworthy was born at Coombe in Surrey and educated at Harrow and New College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1890; he travelled in the Far East (where he met Conrad); his short stories in From the Four Winds (1897) were the start of a very successful writing career. Three novels, A Man of Property (1906), In Chancery (1920) and To Let (1921), were issued together as The Forsyte Saga in 1922; more Forsyte novels followed. More than thirty of Galsworthy’s plays were staged in London, and it is for the dramatic craft and the concern for justice shown in such plays as The Silver Box (1906) and Strife (1909) that he is most admired today.
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McEwan, N. (1989). John Galsworthy 1867–1933. In: McEwan, N. (eds) The Twentieth Century (1900–present). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20151-8_10
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