John Galsworthy

Broschiertes Buch

A Bit O' Love Series 4

Beschreibung

"A Bit O' Love: Series 4" by John Galsworthy is a play set in a village in the West on Ascension Day. The play opens in Burlacombe's farmhouse where Michael Strangway, a clergyman, is playing the flute before a large framed photograph of a woman. The room is paneled and has a low ceiling, with a broad window above the window seat showing the outer gate and yew trees of a churchyard and the porch of a church. Ivy Burlacombe, the farmer's daughter, enters the room quietly with a prayer book in one hand and a glass of water containing wild orchids and hawthorn in the other. She sits on the window seat and sniffs the flowers. Michael Strangway stops playing the flute and sighs after completing the third movement of Veracini's violin sonata. The play explores the relationships between Strangway and the village girls, including Gladys Freeman, Connie Trustaford, and Mercy Jarland, as he tries to teach them about the meaning of love and the coming of the Lord.

Autor

John Galsworthy was an English dramatist and novelist who lived from 14 August 1867 to 31 January 1933. His novels, The Forsyte Saga, and two more trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter, are his best-known works. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. Galsworthy, who came from a wealthy upper-middle-class family, was expected to become a lawyer, but he found the profession unappealing, so he resorted to literature. Before his first book, The Man of Property, about the Forsyte family, was released in 1897, he was thirty years old. It wasn't until that book the first of its kind that he saw true popularity. His debut play, The Silver Box, had its London premiere the same year. As a writer, he gained notoriety for his socially conscious plays that addressed issues such as the politics and morality of war, the persecution of women, the use of solitary confinement in prisons, the battle of workers against exploitation, and jingoism. The patriarch, Old Jolyon, is based on Galsworthy's father, and the Forsyte family in the collection of books and short tales known as The Forsyte Chronicles is comparable to Galsworthy's family in many aspects.

Zur Autorenwelt

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Double 9 Books
• Seitenzahl: 58
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 87g
• ISBN-13: 9789359395401
• ISBN-10: 9359395404
• Artikelnr.: 70541284