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John Galsworthy
英国 温莎王朝  (August 14, 1867 ADJanuary 31, 1933 AD)
Birth Place: 伦敦

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  John Galsworthy OM (pronounced /ˈɡɔːlzwɜrði/; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906—1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
  
  John Galsworthy was born at Kingston Hill in Surrey, England into an established wealthy family, the son of John and Blanche Bailey (née Bartleet) Galsworthy. His large Kingston upon Thames estate is now the site of three schools: Marymount International, Rokeby Preparatory School and Holy Cross. He attended Harrow and New College, Oxford, training as a barrister and was called to the bar in 1890. However, he was not keen to begin practising law and instead travelled abroad to look after the family's shipping business interests. During these travels he met Joseph Conrad, then the first mate of a sailing-ship moored in the harbour of Adelaide, Australia, and the two future novelists became close friends. In 1895 Galsworthy began an affair with Ada Nemesis Pearson Cooper (1864–1956), the wife of Major Arthur Galsworthy, one of his cousins. After her divorce ten years later, the pair married on the 23 September 1905, and stayed together until his death in 1933. Prior to their marriage they stayed clandestinely in a farmhouse called Wingstone in the village of Manaton on Dartmoor, Devon. From 1908 he took out a long lease on part of the building and made it their regular second home until 1923.
  
  From the Four Winds, a collection of short stories, was Galsworthy's first published work in 1897. These, and several subsequent works, were published under the pen name John Sinjohn and it would not be until The Island Pharisees (1904) that he would begin publishing under his own name, probably owing to the death of his father. His first play, The Silver Box (1906), became a success and he followed it up with The Man of Property (1906), the first in the Forsyte trilogy. Although he continued writing both plays and novels it was as a playwright that he was mainly appreciated for at the time. Along with those of other writers of the time, such as George Bernard Shaw, his plays addressed the class system and social issues, two of the best known being Strife (1909) and The Skin Game (1920).
  
  He is now far better known for his novels and particularly The Forsyte Saga, his trilogy about the eponymous family and connected lives. These books, as with many of his other works, dealt with class, and in particular upper-middle class lives. Although sympathetic to his characters he highlights their insular, snobbish and acquisitive attitudes and their suffocating moral codes. He is viewed as one of the first writers of the Edwardian era; challenging in his works some of the ideals of society depicted in the preceding literature of Victorian England. The depiction of a woman in an unhappy marriage furnishes another recurring theme in his work. The character of Irene in The Forsyte Saga is drawn from Ada Pearson even though her previous marriage was not as miserable as that of Irene.
  
  Bury House, Galsworthy's West Sussex home.His work is often less convincing when it deals with the changing face of wider British society and how it affects people of the lower social classes. Through his writings he campaigned for a variety of causes including prison reform, women's rights, animal welfare and the opposition of censorship. During World War I he worked in a hospital in France as an orderly after being passed over for military service. He was elected as the first president of the International PEN literary club in 1921, was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1929—after earlier turning down a knighthood—and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932. He was too ill to attend the Nobel awards ceremony, and died six weeks later.
  
  John Galsworthy lived for the final seven years of his life at Bury in West Sussex. He died from a brain tumour at his London home, Grove Lodge, Hampstead. In accordance with his will he was cremated at Woking with his ashes then being scattered over the South Downs from an aeroplane, but there are also memorials in Highgate 'New' Cemetery and in the cloisters of New College, Oxford (the latter cut and placed in the cloisters by Eric Gill). The popularity of his fiction waned quickly after his death but the hugely successful adaptation of The Forsyte Saga in 1967 renewed interest in his work.
  
  A number of John Galsworthy's letters and papers are held at the University of Birmingham Special Collections.
  
  In 2007, Kingston University, London opened a new building named in recognition of his local birth.
  
  Adaptation
  
  The Forsyte Saga has been filmed several times:
  
  That Forsyte Woman (1949), dir. by Compton Bennett, an MGM adaptation in which Errol Flynn played a rare villainous role as Soames.
  
  BBC television drama (1967), dir. by James Cellan Jones, David Giles, starring Eric Porter, Nyree Dawn Porter, Kenneth More, Susan Hampshire, Joseph O'Conor, adaptor Lennox Philips and others, 26 parts
  
  Granada television drama (2002), dir. by Christopher Menaul, starring Gina McKee, Damian Lewis, Rupert Graves, Corin Redgrave, 13 parts.
  
  The Skin Game was adapted and directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1931. It starred C.V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond, Edmund Gwenn, John Longden.
  
  Escape was filmed in 1930 and 1948. The latter was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell. The screenplay was by Philip Dunne.
  
  One More River (a film version of Galsworthy's Over the River) was filmed by James Whale in 1934. The film starred Frank Lawton, Colin Clive (one of Whale's most frequently used actors), and Diana Wynyard. It also featured Mrs. Patrick Campbell in a rare sound film appearance.
  
  The First and the Last, a short play, was adapted as 21 Days, starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.
  
  Selected work
  
  From The Four Winds, 1897 (as John Sinjohn)
  
  Jocelyn, 1898 (as John Sinjohn)
  
  Villa Rubein, 1900 (as John Sinjohn)
  
  A Man Of Devon, 1901 (as John Sinjohn)
  
  The Island Pharisees, 1904
  
  The Silver Box, 1906 (his first play)
  
  The Forsyte Saga, 1906–21, 1922
  
  The Man Of Property, 1906
  
  (interlude) Indian Summer of a Forsyte, 1918
  
  In Chancery, 1920
  
  (interlude) Awakening, 1920
  
  To Let, 1921
  
  The Country House, 1907
  
  A Commentary, 1908
  
  Fraternity, 1909
  
  A Justification For The Censorship Of Plays, 1909
  
  Strife, 1909
  
  Fraternity, 1909
  
  Joy, 1909
  
  Justice, 1910
  
  A Motley, 1910
  
  The Spirit Of Punishment, 1910
  
  Horses In Mines, 1910
  
  The Patrician, 1911
  
  The Little Dream, 1911
  
  The Pigeon, 1912
  
  The Eldest Son, 1912
  
  Moods, Songs, And Doggerels, 1912
  
  For Love Of Beasts, 1912
  
  The Inn Of Tranquillity, 1912
  
  The Dark Flower, 1913
  
  The Fugitive, 1913
  
  The Mob, 1914
  
  The Freelands, 1915
  
  The Little Man, 1915
  
  A Bit's Love, 1915
  
  A Sheaf, 1916
  
  The Apple Tree, 1916
  
  Beyond, 1917
  
  Five Tales, 1918
  
  Saint's Progress, 1919
  
  Addresses In America, 1912
  
  The Foundations, 1920
  
  In Chancery, 1920
  
  Awakening, 1920
  
  The Skin Game, 1920
  
   To Let, 1920
  
  A Family Man, 1922
  
  The Little Man, 1922
  
  Loyalties, 1922
  
  Windows, 1922
  
  Captures, 1923
  
  Abracadabra, 1924
  
  The Forest, 1924
  
  Old English, 1924
  
  The Show, 1925
  
  Escape, 1926
  
  Verses New And Old, 1926
  
  Castles In Spain, 1927
  
  A Modern Comedy, 1924–1928, 1929
  
  The White Monkey, 1924
  
  (Interlude) a Silent Wooing, 1927
  
  The Silver Spoon, 1926
  
  (Interlude) Passers By, 1927
  
  Swan Song, 1928
  
  Two Forsyte Interludes, 1927
  
  The Manaton Edition, 1923–26 (collection, 30 vols.)
  
  Exiled, 1929
  
  The Roof, 1929
  
  On Forsyte 'Change, 1930
  
  Two Essays On Conrad, 1930
  
  Soames And The Flag, 1930
  
  The Creation Of Character In Literature, 1931 (The Romanes Lecture for 1931).
  
  Maid In Waiting, 1931
  
  Forty Poems, 1932
  
  Flowering Wilderness, 1932
  
  Over the River, 1933
  
  Autobiographical Letters Of Galsworthy: A Correspondence With Frank Harris, 1933
  
  The Grove Edition, 1927–34 (collection, 27 Vols.)
  
  Collected Poems, 1934
  
  End Of the Chapter, 1931–1933, 1934 (posthumously)
  
  Maid In Waiting, 1931
  
  Flowering Wilderness, 1932
  
  One More River, 1933 (originally the English edition was called Over the River)
  
  Punch And Go, 1935
  
  The Life And Letters, 1935
  
  The Winter Garden, 1935
  
  Forsytes, Pendyces And Others, 1935
  
  Selected Short Stories, 1935
  
  Glimpses And Reflections, 1937
  
  Galsworthy's Letters To Leon Lion, 1968
  
  Letters From John Galsworthy 1900–1932, 1970
    

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