John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright, who won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. He came from a newly rich upper middle class commercial family. His works mainly dealt with the social class system prevalent at that time. He especially concentrated on the upper middle class to which his own family belonged. Although he treated his characters sympathetically, he highlighted their narrow-minded snobbishness and suffocating moral values.

This selection chosen by the critic August Nemocontains the following stories:

- The First and Last

- A Stoic

- The Apple Tree

- The Juryman

- Indian Summer of a Forsyte

- The Hedonist

- Buttercup Night