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A Sheaf
The work primarily compiles Galsworthy's non-fiction writings addressing a variety of social and ethical issues, particularly concerning the treatment of animals, the position of women.
"A Sheaf" by John Galsworthy is a collection of essays. The work primarily compiles Galsworthy's non-fiction writings addressing a variety of social and ethical issues, particularly concerning the treatment of animals, the position of women.
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We had left my rooms, and were walking briskly down the street towards the river, when my friend stopped before the window of a small shop and said:
I[1] looked at him very doubtfully; one had known him so long that one never looked at him in any other way.
“Can you imagine,” he went on, “how any sane person can find pleasure in the sight of those swift things swimming for ever and ever in a bowl about twice the length of their own tails?”
“No,” I said, “I cannot—though, of course, they’re very pretty.”
“That is, no doubt, the reason why they are kept in misery.”
Again I looked at him; there is nothing in the world I distrust so much as irony.
“People don’t think about these things,” I said.
Contents
- 01On the Treatment of Animals
- 02Concerning Laws
- 03On Prisons and Punishment
- 04On the Position of Women
- 05On Social Unrest
- 06On Peace
- 07Valley of the Shadow
- 08Credo
- 09France
- 10Reveille
- 11First Thoughts on This War
- 12The Hope of Lasting Peace
- 13Diagnosis of the Englishman
- 14Our Literature and the War
- 15Art and the War
- 16Tre Cime DI Lavaredo
- 17Second Thoughts on This War
- 18Totally Disabled
- 19Cartoon
- 20Harvest
- 21And—After?
- 22I—Prelude
- 23II—Freedom and Privilege
- 24III—The Nation and Training
- 25IV—Health, Humanity and Procedure
- 26V—A Last Word
- 27The Islands of the Blessed
About this edition
- Author
- John Galsworthy
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Advanced: for close, demanding reading
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 280 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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