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John Galsworthy was one of the last representatives of bourgeois critical realism in English literature. His novels, plays and short stories give the most complete picture of the English bourgeois society in the first part of the twentieth century. A bourgeois himself, Galsworthy clearly saw the decline of his class and truthfully portrayed this in his works.
He was greatly influenced by Russian writers, particularly by L. N. Tolstoy, Turgenev and Chekhov. This is how it happened. In 1891, when Galsworthy was quite young, his father sent him on business to the Crimea. He did not know Russian, he stayed in Russia only a short time but nevertheless the country awakened his interest. After that he read many books by Russian authors in English and called them his masters.
Galsworthy’s best book is “The Forsyte Saga” which consists of six separate novels. The story of the Forsyte family is at the same time the history of the English bourgeois society over a period of fifty years.
Though in his latest works, especially written after World War I and the Great October Socialist Revolution, Galsworthy is much less critical, we value him as a great writer and humanist who always believed in man.
