Aspects of John Galsworthy's Novels (An Old and Rare Book)

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In this book it has been my endeavour to present some aspects of the novels of John Galsworthy. If personal factors contributed to his emergence as a writer, they were all the more effective in shaping him as a searching social critic. Analysing Galsworthy's novels in a historical way. I have tried to bring out why and how the note of social criticism developed in this novelist, and, why and how it began to wane.

I have tried to show that Galsworthy was remarkable as a novelist in spite of the uncharitable criticism of his detractors. During his life-time and soon afterwards, too, he was both extolled and cried down. In his case, as in the case of many others, nearness clouded the dispassionate judgement of his critics. Time, however, sweeps away the dross and dis- covers the permanent. Critics' vision that may get blurred owing to nearness of time regains its clarity with its adjustment to the proper distance. Today, Galsworthy is neither too far removed to require an exercise of historical imagination for appreciation nor is he too near to attract fallible perceptions. It is possible now to view this novelist in a true perspective, and I have tried to show how, in spite of his uninspired intervals, he has carved a place for himself among the deathless through his creation of several characters that the world will not willingly let die.