Short excerpt: His head was round his cheeks fat and well-coloured his lips red and full under a black moustache and he was regarding us through very thick and half-closed…

The curtain rises on the BARTHWICK’S dining-room large modern and well furnished; the window curtains drawn. Electric light is burning. On the large round dining-table is set out a tray…

Short excerpt: SIR CHARLES is an upright well-groomed grey-moustached red-faced man of sixty-seven with a keen eye for molehills and none at all for mountains. LADY DEDMOND has a firm…

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English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire…

LARRY. A Polish girl. She–her father died over here when she was sixteen, and left her all alone. There was a mongrel living in the same house who married her–or…