The Country House (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Zusatztext

<div><p>This 1907 novellater specifically cited by the Nobel Committeeis set in an English country house that stands as a microcosm of genteel society, where Victorian mores are coming into conflict with the realities of modern industrial life.  When young George Pendyce falls for a "common" woman, the cracks in his family life are revealed.</p></div>

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<div><div><b>John Galsworthy</b> (1867-1933) was an English writer and dramatist.&#xa0; He is best known for his ambitious series of novels<i>The Forsyte Saga</i> (1906-1922), which focuses on the fortune of a family over time, and aims to illuminate the social and economic changes occurring throughout England.&#xa0; He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.</div></div>

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