John Galsworthy
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Lockdown cultureNo exit: the best plays about confinement, from Sophocles to SartreDramatists have long focused on the agonies and irritations of self-imposed or enforced isolation
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From Scott Fitzgerald’s glamour to Edith Wharton’s high-society intrigue, the best of these seductive stories reveal uncomfortable secrets
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4 out of 5 stars.Geoffrey Beevers’ production of little-known play about the moral fissures within an upper middle-class family is a razor-sharp take on a quietly subversive work
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Letters: The phrase seems to be derived from the world of corruption and privilege portrayed by John Galsworthy, writes Dr David Blazey
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Notable writers and artists contribute to an anthology sold in aid of Queen Mary’s convalescent hospitals
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Jeffrey Archer: From Hornblower to the Smiley books to the Forsyte Saga, here are 10 examples of good old-fashioned multi-volume storytelling
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Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 2 March 1914: Whatever Mr. John Galsworthy says is read with respect. And rightly so. For it always expresses what one uncommonly sincere and sensitive mind has really felt
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Fancy a house with a literary past? Huma Qureshi opens the book on some inspiring properties
Gallery
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Michael Billington on an unsparing portrait of the English class system at its most destructive.
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Theatre: Our Miss Gibbs | Loyalties | Breakfast with Jonny Wilkinson
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Havens of hypocrisy
Hywel WilliamsHywel Williams: The Forsyte Saga reveals above all the web of property spun around England - both then and now.
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Rupert Graves found fame portraying public schoolboys - and in The Forsyte Saga he plays a bohemian toff. But Emma Brockes discovers a very different man behind the screen image.
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