The Fugitive (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By John Galsworthy

This 1913 play is a study of that peculiar English malady:  good form.  Clare Dedmond, the unhappy wife of George Dedmond, longs for a life of freedom and art.  A friendship with the novelist Malise seems to offer her the chance to escape the deadening Dedmond household . . . but at a great cost.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Mar 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411440203

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.