Galsworthy John: 237 books

Clare Cherrell has come home, fleeing the clutches of her violent, abusive husband. When he pursues her she vows she will never return and sets about fighting him in bitter divorce proceedings. Dinny supports her sister all the way, but she has her own heartache to conquer, a grief which threatens...

Through the massive skylight illuminating the hall at Robin Hill, the July sunlight at five o'clock fell just where the broad stairway turned; and in that radiant streak little Jon Forsyte stood, blue-linen-suited. His hair was shining, and his eyes, from beneath a frown, for he was considering how to...

LADY ELLA. Don't bring Hannibal in till I know where she's put Edward!

WAITER. [Approaching a table whereat sit an English traveller and his wife] Two coffee?

PAYNTER. She and the Governor don't hit it! One of these days she'll flit— you'll see. I like her— she's a lady; but these thoroughbred 'uns— it's their skin and their mouths. They'll go till they drop if they like the job, and if they don't, it's nothing but jib— jib— jib. How was it down there before she married him?

In the year 1821 'Superior Dosset' Forsyte came to Town—if not precisely on a milk–white pony. According to the testimony of Aunt Ann, noted for precision, to young Jolyon on holiday from Eton, the migration from Bosport was in fact tribal and effected in two post– shays and the Highflyer coach. "It...

I At the door of St. George's registry office, Charles Clare Winton strolled forward in the wake of the taxi-cab that was bearing his daughter away with “the fiddler fellow” she had married. His sense of decorum forbade his walking with Nurse Betty— the only other witness of the wedding. A stout...

In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190-, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington. This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleamed— a...

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LORD WILLIAM DROMONDY'S mansion in Park Lane. Eight o'clock of the evening. LITTLE ANNE DROMONDY and the large footman, JAMES, gaunt and grin, discovered in the wine cellar, by light of gas. JAMES, in plush breeches, is selecting wine.

This 1914 drama follows a moral politician, Stephen More, as he watches his powerful country plan an attack on a small country. What’s worse, his government is using trumped up charges in order to overtake and add the small country to their empire. More feels powerless as pressures from his family and parliament keep him quiet.

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.

TIME: The present. The action passes throughout midsummer day on the lawn of Colonel Hope's house, near the Thames above Oxford.