![]() This family belongs to a stabile stratum of society, the roots of which are in money. In the Saga Galsworthy presents an entire class contemporary with himself whose types are represented by different members of a large family: the Forsytes. Galsworthy’s fame rests upon The Forsyte Saga, a trilogy consistting of three novels: The Man of Proprety, In Chancery and To Let. The year before his death he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. His most notable plays are: The silver Box and Strife. ![]() After that he began to write dramas too, and for the following years Galsworthy was a most prolific writer producing, on the average, a novel and a play a year. In 1904 he published his novel The Island Pharisees which drew the attention of the public to him then came the publication of The Man of Proprety (1906) which made him famous. After graduating from the university he became a lawyer, like his father.Īs he inherited a large enough fortune at his father’s death he gave up the legal profession and dedicated himself to the study of English and world literature. His father was a well-known London lawyer and was a wealthy man who sent his son firstly to Harrow, a famous public school, and then to Oxford University. ![]()
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