The Pigeon

A Fantasy in Three Acts

John Galsworthy

• Publisher: Perlego
• Year: 2004
• ISBN:
  9700000002913
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

1915. English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. The Pigeon opens in Act I: It is the night of Christmas Eve, the scene is a Studio, flush with the street, having a skylight darkened by a fall of snow. There is no one in the room, the walls of which are whitewashed, above a floor of bare dark boards. A fire is cheerfully burning. On a model's platform stands an easel and canvas...The sound of a latchkey turned in the lock of the street door, and Ann Wellwyn enters, a girl of seventeen, with hair tied in a ribbon and covered by a scarf. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.