Quality by john galsworthy moral lesson
Quality by john galsworthy moral lesson
Quality by john galsworthy essays...
| John Galsworthy [1885-1933] |
[Best known today as the author of The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy was a popular and prolific novelist and playwright in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Galsworthy had a lifelong interest in social and moral issues, in particular the dire effects of poverty.
He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1929 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
In the narrative "Quality" [1911], Galsworthy depicts a German craftsman's heroic life of dedication to his profession, in an era where "big firms having no self respect grab all jobs by advertisement and not by work."]
Quality by John Galsworthy
| Not a man in London made a better boot! |
I knew him from the days of my extreme youth, because he made my father's boots; inhabiting with his elder brother two little shops let into one, in a small by-street