The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy

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The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy is headed Studies and Essays, Complete, by John Galsworthy. The contents list pieces under Concerning Life, Part 1 and Part 2, among them The Inn of Tranquillity, Magpie Over the Hill and Sheep-Shearing, along with Studies and Essays such as Concerning Letters and Some Platitudes Concerning Drama. A piece headed Magpie Over the Hill has a narrator lying often that summer on a slope of sand and coarse grass, close to the Cornish sea, trying to catch thoughts. The narrator sees a little maid dressed in blue linen come hand in hand with a strong, active boy of perhaps fourteen.

A passage describes a poor bewildered puppy with a perverse affection for cats, who bore to his grave a jagged scratch across the eye.

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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.