John Galsworthy 
Saint’s Progress (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

In the novel 
Saint’s Progress, published in 1919, Galsworthy wrestles with issues of the Great War.  What was really being fought for:  love as the guiding principle of life, a balance between Might is Right and Right is Might or a basic belief in God?   

About the author

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) was an English novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. His best known works are The Forsyte Saga and its sequels A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter.  He was a close friend of the writer Joseph Conrad, whom he met while at sea.