Studies and Essays

The Inn of Tranquility, and Others

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Studies and Essays, by John Galsworthy, has a table of contents that lists Inn of Tranquility, Magpie Over the Hill, Sheep-Shearing and Evolution. One piece describes coming one afternoon on a pink house bearing the legend Osteria di Tranquillita, among the pine-trees and junipers, the cypresses and olives of that Odyssean coast.

The text describes the forges stilled, with the women coming forth from court and alley, a thousand and more of the poorest-paid and hardest-worked human beings in the world. A narrator says he sat up for a long time with that poor beast, sick enough, and wondering how it had come to be stoned and kicked and battered into this state.

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John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy trained as a barrister but devoted his career to novels, plays, and short fiction about English social life. The Forsyte Saga, the family chronicle singled out when he received the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature, brings together three novels and two interludes.