Silver Box

Written by John Galsworthy

Narrated by LibriVox Community

This is a lovely comedy about the theft of a prostitute's purse by a rich 'young man of good family. It is placed beside the theft of a silver cigarette case from the rich man's father's house by 'a poor devil', with very different repercussions. - Summary by Michele Eaton

Editor and Narrator: Michele Eaton
John Barthwick; Livens: Steve Gough
Mrs Barthwick: Kristin Gjerløw
Jack Barthwick: davidpr
Roper: Joseph Tabler
Mrs Jones: Beth Thomas
Marlow: K. Adrian Stroet
Wheeler: Sonia
Jones: Peter Tucker
Mrs Seddon: Bev J Stevens
Snow: ToddHW
A Police Magistrate: John Burlinson
An Unknown Lady: Availle
A Relieving Officer: David Olson
Swearing Clerk: Mary Kay
An Usher: Dillon McFarlane
Bald Constable: David Purdy
Clerk: MikeyHaz

• Language: English
• Publisher: LibriVox
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014

John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy was a Nobel-Prize (1932) winning English dramatist, novelist, and poet born to an upper-middle class family in Surrey, England. He attended Harrow and trained as a barrister at New College, Oxford. Although called to the bar in 1890, rather than practise law, Galsworthy travelled extensively and began to write. It was as a playwright Galsworthy had his first success. His plays—like his most famous work, the series of novels comprising The Forsyte Saga—dealt primarily with class and the social issues of the day, and he was especially harsh on the class from which he himself came.