The complete online text of The Mob by John Galsworthy.

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...

Preaching not from his usual podium last week, Father Fabian Grifone harked back to a time when the yearly feast of San Gennaro was about family and tradition. And gambling—“mild gambling,” as he put it, which used to take place in the courtyard of his...

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argument between allies of Rudy Giuliani and Mark Green over who deserves credit for removing the mob from the gabage industry. (It's worth settling, if only because the accomplishment is a central biographical selling point of Green's attorney general campaign -- and at least a...

It was a hot July day, and I was lazily sipping iced coffee when I picked up the phone to hear my mother fighting back tears. Her moment had come. She’d gotten jury duty. When my mom—a law-abiding, Annie Hall–turns-savvy-business-woman type—was chosen to be on...