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Selected Short Stories
Author: John Galsworthy

SELECTED SHORT STORIES BY JOHN GALSWORTHY EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION, vii ELEVEN TALES BY GALSWORTHY : THE MAN WHO KEPT His FORM 1920 i A PORTRAIT 1910 . . 21 QUALITY 19111 , . . 44 THE BLACK GODMOTHER 1912 , 55 PEACE MEETING 1917 . . . 63 THE BROKEN BOOT 1922 . . 72 ACME 1923 . . . . . 79 .THE BUCKLES OF SU... more »PERIOR DOSSET, 18211863 . . . . . .89 A SAD AFFAIR, 1867 . . ,105 REVOLT AT ROGERS, 1870 . .123 SOAMES AND THE FLAG, 19141918 . 138 NOTES . . ,183 :... . PUBLISHERS NOTE Thisselection is published by the kind pcrmissioi of Messrs, William Heiucmawi, Ltd, INTRODUCTION IF the question were asked of an Englishman by a foreigner, Which of your writers would give me the best idea of your nation at the present time and during the last thirty years ? the probable answer would be, Either Wells or Galsworthy. Wells, if you want to know the average man in the street and his ideas and feelings Galsworthy, if you want to know the propertied classes, the intelligentzia and pro fessional people, and a great deal too about the working classes from the upper class point of view. This is, of course, the kind of summary judg ment that would have to be made on, the spot in answer to a sudden question. It does not attempt to estimate all the work of H. G. Wellshis very important scientific romances, for instancenor does it include all of Galsworthy by any mcans? but it does penetrate to the heart of the question as to where the twentiethcentury English man and woman is to be found most clearly and fully depicted in literature, and it docs fairly accurately distinguish between the different contribution INTRODUCTION to that picture made by two of our foremost painters of the English social life of our time. It depends, then, which part of English society is regarded as the more typical of the whole or as the more interesting personally If the middle class of small business men and those just beneath that level, then Wells Mr. Britling and Kipps will probably be chosen if, on the other hand, one thinks that upper middle class people, more accustomed to decide for themselves and less controlled by newspapers and massopinion, are truer of the English mentality, then one must turn to Galsworthy in order to know what is English. There is room, in fact, for both of our greatest modern novelists, very diverse as they are, and the work of each rounds off that of the other writer with fair completeness.

ISBN-13: 9781406733938
ISBN-10: 1406733938
Publication Date: 11/12/2006
Pages: 204
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Publisher: Hesperides Press
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