John Galsworthy

Broschiertes Buch

Tatterdemalion

Beschreibung

This antiquarian volume contains John Galsworthy's 1920s novel, 'Tatterdemalion'. A wonderful example of Galsworthy's masterful fiction-writing prowess, this novel is a veritable must-read for fans of his work, and it would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf. The chapters of this book include: The Grey Angel, Defeat, Flotsam and Jetsam, The Bright Side, The Recruit, The Dog It Was That Died, In Heaven and Earth, The Mother Stone, The Muffled Ship, Heritage, A Green Hill Far Away... and more. John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933) was an esteemed English novelist and playwright, who is most remembered for 'The Forsyte Saga'. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Autor

John Galsworthy was an English dramatist and novelist who lived from 14 August 1867 to 31 January 1933. His novels, The Forsyte Saga, and two more trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter, are his best-known works. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. Galsworthy, who came from a wealthy upper-middle-class family, was expected to become a lawyer, but he found the profession unappealing, so he resorted to literature. Before his first book, The Man of Property, about the Forsyte family, was released in 1897, he was thirty years old. It wasn't until that book the first of its kind that he saw true popularity. His debut play, The Silver Box, had its London premiere the same year. As a writer, he gained notoriety for his socially conscious plays that addressed issues such as the politics and morality of war, the persecution of women, the use of solitary confinement in prisons, the battle of workers against exploitation, and jingoism. The patriarch, Old Jolyon, is based on Galsworthy's father, and the Forsyte family in the collection of books and short tales known as The Forsyte Chronicles is comparable to Galsworthy's family in many aspects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pomona Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9781406793123
• ISBN-10: 1406793124
• Artikelnr.: 32890418