Publisher's Synopsis
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. Galsworthy was a very prolific writer and his novel The Forsyte Saga and its sequels are considered classics in English literature. The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts is a humorous play that Galsworthy published in 1906. The play centers around the disappearance of a cigarette box which is used to satirize the different social classes of England.