The Works of John Galsworthy: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy
1927
The Works of John Galsworthy: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy
1927
Here lies the heart of English literary realism, collected at last. Galsworthy charted the Forsyte family across three generations, tracing how money, property, and social convention bound them together even as those very forces threatened to tear them apart. The Forsyte Saga remains one of the great English novel sequences: a sprawling portrait of a world the 1880s built and the 1920s dismantled. Galsworthy writes with surgical precision about the emotional warfare within families, the weight of inheritance, and the quiet desperation of those who have everything except the things that matter. This collection gathers not only that masterwork but his essays and plays, revealing a writer who understood that the deepest conflicts happen behind closed doors, in the spaces where love and ownership collide.
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“Curious how he jibbed away from sight of his wife and child!One would have thought he must have rushed up at the first moment. On the contrary, he had a sort of physical shrinking from it”
— John Galsworthy
“Prima ancora del suo primo disastroso matrimonio, si ricordava d’aver seguito con ardore le ribellioni dell’Irlanda, e le cause di divorzio di donne che cercavano di liberarsi da uomini che odiavano. Avevano un bel da dire i parroci che la libertà spirituale e corporale son cose affatto diverse! Perniciosa dottrina, quella! Il corpo e l’anima non si possono separare in tal modo. La libera volontà costituisce la forza di ogni legame, e non la sua debolezza.””
— John Galsworthy
“«Qual è la vostra ricetta per conservare la giovinezza, Irene?»«Quando non si vive ci si conserva meravigliosamente».””
— John Galsworthy
