John Galsworthy (1867–1933) was an English writer, novelist and playwright, and the Nobel Prize in Literature winner (1932).
Two trilogies, The Forsyte Saga (1922) and its sequel, A Modern Comedy (1928), where he demonstrated morals and psychology of the English commercial upper-middle class, won him world fame and the Nobel Prize. John Galsworthy authored 20 novels, 27 plays, 3 poetry collections, 173 stories, 5 essays, 700 letters, and many other sketches on various topics.
The envelope with an original stamp contains a composition of symbols of various kinds of art: a lyre, a palette, a book, a quill, a column and a theatre curtain, as well as a portrait of John Galsworthy against the background of a multi-volume edition of The Forsyte Saga his books, as well as several illustrations to his works.
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| Letter “A” |
Moscow Printing Works - Branch of JSC “Goznak” |
High Whiteness Modified (HWM) |
Offset |
110 × 220 mm |
glue |
1000000 |