John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was a British novelist, playwright and British critical realist writer. Born into a wealthy bourgeois family, he studied law at Oxford University, then gave up his job as a lawyer and devoted himself to literary creation. At the age of 30, he published his debut novel "The End of the World", but it was not until the publication of "The Pharisees" in 1904 that he attracted social attention. In 1906, Galsworthy completed the novel "The Industrialist". He is considered an outstanding successor to the British literary realism tradition. His father was a well-known lawyer in London. He graduated from Oxford University Law Department in 1899, but was not interested in legal practice and concentrated on literary creation. He wrote several early novels under the pseudonym John-Singjohn, but they did not attract much attention. "The Pharisee on the Island" is one of his more mature novels published under his real name. After graduating from college, he did not want to become a lawyer, so he traveled widely. He met Ferrand, a young man living overseas, who prompted him to look at the living environment he had been familiar with for a long time with new eyes. Later, he saw the life of the poor in the London slums, and thus realized that the bourgeoisie-the Pharisees Descendants of hypocrisy, fraud and corrupt nature. At the end of the story, Sheldon discovers that the girl he is engaged to also belongs to a family like the Pharisees and has major differences with him on basic issues of life, so he resolutely breaks off the engagement with her. In 1932, Garthvasy was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "the excellence of the descriptive art which reaches its culmination in Forsyte House". Nobel Prize in Literature.