An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and if he had not money he was free in law and not in fact. An era which had canonized hypocrisy, so that to seem to be respectable was to be.

Escape was filmed in 1930 and 1948. From the Four Winds a collection of short stories was Galsworthy's first publiJohn Galsworthyd work in 1897. Patrick Campbell in a rare sound film appearance.

Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906–1921) and its sequels A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.