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A more incongruous friendship than the one reflected in this correspondence is hard to imagine. Shaw is now remembered as the leading playwright of his time, and one of era's most memorable wits; Harris has become notorious for his near-pornographic My Life and Loves, and for a humorless (and disintegrating) sense of self-importance. At one time, Harris had been one of the later nineteenth century's most visible literary figures, a friend of such dissimilar people as Lord Randolph Churchill and Oscar Wilde, an editor of the London Evening News at 29, then editor of the Fortnightly Review and the Saturday Review, whose theatre critic Shaw became. Never quite respectable, Harris had been tolerated -even courted- as an amiable vulgarian when he was a rising star. However, his booming voice and four-letter language, his inability to look like anything other than an Albanian highwayman even when dressed in tails, his gluttonous gormandizing and insatiable womanizing, quickly made him a pariah in Edwardian circles as his career began to slip and he began to snatch at shady quick-money opportunities.Through these pages emerge the literary and political life of Edwardian and Georgian England, and wartime American, via Shaw's wit and ebullience and Harris's pomposity and paranoia.
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- PublisherColin Smythe Ltd
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 086140131X
- ISBN 13 9780861401314
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages274
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. THE PLAYWRIGHT AND THE PIRATE. Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris A Correspondence. Stanley Weintraub (Editor) Colin Smythe Ltd, Gerrards Cross 1982 First edition ISBN 086140131X 274pp Hardback. This copy is in FINE unmarked condition in a FINE unclipped dustwrapper. A more incongruous friendship than the one reflected in this correspondence is hard to imagine. Shaw is now remembered as the leading playwright of his time and one of the era's most memorable wits; Harris has become notorious for his near pornographic " My life And Loves", and for a humourless (and disintegrating) sense of self importance. At one time Harris had been one of the late nineteenth century's most visible literary figures, a friend of such dissimilar people as Lord rondolph Churchill and Oscar Wilde. Thew 121 letters in this book spanning more than 35 years reveal much of the private men and become in effect a pair of parallel autobiographies. Ref U5. Seller Inventory # 005871
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