id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-282 John Galsworthy - Wikipedia .html text/html 4834 736 71 John Galsworthy OM (/ˈɡɔːlzwɜːrði/; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Along with those of other writers of the period, such as George Bernard Shaw, his plays addressed the class system and other social issues, two of the best known being Strife (1909) and The Skin Game (1920). Galsworthy added "What are we going to do for Belgium — for this most gallant of little countries, ground, because of sheer loyalty, under an iron heel?" [6] During the First World War he worked in a hospital in France as an orderly, after being passed over for military service, and in 1917 turned down a knighthood, for which he was nominated by Prime Minister David Lloyd George, on the precept that a writer's reward comes simply from writing itself.[7] John Galsworthy (1867–1933) and Animal Welfare. John Galsworthy works John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-282.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-282.txt