Abracadabra and Other Satires Author:John Galsworthy John Galsworthy (1867-1933) devoted virtually his entire professional career to creating a fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians- the Forsytes. He made their lives and times - loves and losses - fortunes and deaths so real that readers accused him of including as characters in his drama real individuals whom they... more » knew. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. Contents: Abracadabra The Voice of - ! A Simple Tale Ultima Thule Studies of Extravagance For Love of Beasts Reverie of a Sportman Grotesques« less