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    The Foundations (An Extravagant Play)
    The Foundations (An Extravagant Play)
    The Foundations (An Extravagant Play)
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    The Foundations (An Extravagant Play)

    By John Galsworthy

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    This play revolves around a gas man leaving a bomb in the wine cellar of the house he serviced. He brags about it to his old mother drinking the wine he stole from the family's basement. Galsworthy's works dealt with social class, upper-middle class lives in particular. Although constantly sympathetic to his characters, he exposes their snobbish, somewhat greedy attitudes and suffocating moral codes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateApr 25, 2021
    ISBN4057664596987
    The Foundations (An Extravagant Play)
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    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.

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