Author:Galsworthy, John

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Laughing Anne & One Day More: Two Plays

By: Conrad, Joseph; Galsworthy, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, John Castle: 1924

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2197196

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Page ridge and first few leaves foxed. 1924 Hard Cover. 127 pp., 3-page publisher ad bound in following text. 8vo. Two plays by the author of The Heart of Darkness and numerous nautical stories, with an introduction by John Galsworthy, author of The Forsyte Saga.
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The Forsyte Saga (The Man of Property; In Chancery; To Let)

By: Galsworthy, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner: 2002

Edition: 1st Printing

Seller ID: 2296809

ISBN: 0743245024

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

1st printing. An exceptional copy. 2002 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. The Forsyte Saga is John Galsworthy's monumental chronicle of the lives of the moneyed Forsytes, a family whose values are constantly at war with its passions. The story of Soames Forsyte's marriage to the beautiful and rebellious Irene, and its effects upon the whole Forsyte clan, The Forsyte Saga is a brilliant social satire of the acquisitive sensibilities of a comfort-bound class in its final glory. Galsworthy spares none of his characters, revealing their weaknesses and shortcomings as c...
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Forsytes, Pendyces and Others

By: Galsworthy, John

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd.: 1935

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2200504

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine slightly cocked. 1935 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 298 pp. A collection of short works and selections from commentary on, and contributions to the works of, other well-known authors (including Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and Leo Tolstoy). John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.
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Swan Song

By: Galsworthy, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1928

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2204045

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine slightly cocked, ink name to front paste-down endpaper. 1928 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 360 pp. Third book ofA Modern Comedy.The nine novels which make up The Forsyte Chronicles -- one of the most popular and enduring works of 20th century literature -- chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. The author has drawn ...
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Two Forsyte Interludes

By: Galsworthy, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann, Ltd.: 1927

Seller ID: 2204828

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Page ridges faintly foxed. 1927 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 74 pp. The nine novels which make up The Forsyte Chronicles -- one of the most popular and enduring works of 20th century literature -- chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. The author has drawn a fascinating and accurately detailed picture of the British propertied class. Often i...
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Maid in Waiting

By: Galsworthy, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1931

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 2204832

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Very good in fair jacket. Two inch chip to jacket front and spine obscuring author name and text, large stain to jacket front. 1931 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 362 pp. Maid in Waitingis the first novel in the third and final volume of theForsyte Saga Chronicles, the seventh of the nine novels. Following the quite climatic ending to the previous volume, we put the Forsytes to one side and concentrate instead on the Cherrell family, cousins of the Monts; the family Fleur Forsyte married into. Fleur and her husband Michael having now been marr...
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Plays: The Forest / Old English / The Show (Sixth Series)

By: Galsworthy, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1926

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 2208332

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. No jacket, ink name on front endpaper. 1926 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 115, 112, 97 pp.English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. Galsworthy's plays sometimes possess an atmosphere of poetic feeling that is far from trivial. In The Forest Galsworthy brands the inconsiderate spirit of greed that, for crass purposes, exploits the heroism of the British world-conquering mind. The Show represents the de...
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Forsytes, Pendyces and Others

By: Galsworthy, John; Ada Galsworthy

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1935

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2204043

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. 1935 Hard Cover. viii, 287 pp. He is now far better known for his novels, particularly The Forsyte Saga, his trilogy about the eponymous family and connected lives. These books, as with many of his other works, deal with social class, and upper-middle class lives in particular. Although sympathetic to his characters, he highlights their insular, snobbish, and acquisitive attitudes and their suffocating moral codes. He is viewed as one of the first writers of the Edwardian era who challenged some of the ideals of society depicted in the preceding literature of Victorian England. ...
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Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest

By: Hudson, W.H.; Galsworthy, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1944

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2294184

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase. Spine lightly soiled. 1944 Hard Cover. 303 pp. Color plates and black-and-white illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, foreword by John Galsworthy. Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904) is an exotic romance by William Henry Hudson about a traveler to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima.
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