The English novelist and playwright John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was one of the most popular writers of the early 20th century. His work explores the transitions and contrasts between pre- and post-World War I England. Born on Aug. 14, 1867, in Coombe, Su...
During the first decade of the twentieth century, John Galsworthy was widely regarded as one of England's leading writers. As a novelist and a playwright, he was commercially successful and critically esteemed. After World War I and until his death in 19...
During the first decade of the twentieth century, John Galsworthy was widely regarded as one of England's leading writers. As a novelist and a playwright, he was commercially successful and critically esteemed. After the First World War and until his dea...
A house in the village where the poet Thomas Gray wrote a well known elegy was subject to a second mortgage, so the judges of the Court of Appeal less poetically ruled on the first mortgagee's application for possession. Thomas Gray's Stoke Poges...
Trouble and strife THE FUN FACTORY: A LIFE IN THE BBC by Will Wyatt Aurum Press, L20, pp. 363, ISBN 1854109154 Will Wyatt opens this account of his 34 years at the BBC with the attempts by himself and John Birt to...
Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister warned Monday that failure to resolve the fate of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk could result in more strife and accused people within the government of blocking a solution."We have a choice," Barham Saleh told The Associated Press. "We can...
With allegations of money mismanagement, threats of court action and some members leaving, a group that has sponsored war protests in President Bush's adopted hometown has been anything but peaceful.The Crawford Peace House recently lost its corporate charter with the state, and a former member...
