A Motley (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By John Galsworthy

This 1910 collection of stories, studies, and impressions includes one of Galsworthy's most notable short works, "The Japanese Quince."  A contemporary review in the New York Times praised the stories as "vivified by a passionate sympathy with life in its every manifestation."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Mar 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411440517

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.