Bernard Shaw: Complete Boxed Set, Volumes 1, 2 and 3

(Bernard Shaw). Michael Holroyd

ISBN 10: 0701137568 / ISBN 13: 9780701137564

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1988

About this Item

1st Edition, 1st Impression, Chatto 1988. 3 Volumes in slipcase. Very Thick Royal 4to Very good clean tight sound square, appear unopened and unread, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind, well held in joints and hinges, clean crisp corners and edges. Bound in very good bright gilt lettered black cloth, featuring green, blue and purple label. All with very good clipped original portrait pictorial dustwrappers. Housed and protected tin very good original laminated dustwrapper. Very heavy set, will incur additional postage charge particularly and perhaps prohibitively outside Europe, please inquire.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bernard Shaw: Complete Boxed Set, Volumes 1, 2 and 3
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701137568
• ISBN 13: 9780701137564
• Binding: HardBack
• Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

When Michael Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was hailed as a masterpiece. Now the biography is available for the first time in a lively and accessible abridgment by the author. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian, and irresistible charmer, Bernard Shaw was the most controversial literary figure of his age, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. At the turn of the century, Shaw was in his prime, a theatrical impresario and author of those great campaigning plays - Man and Superman, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, and John Bull's Other Island - that used laughter as an anesthetic for the operation he performed on British society. By 1914 the author of Pygmalion was the most popular writer in England, and increasingly recognized throughout Europe and America. The reluctant recipient of a Nobel Prize for literature and an Academy Award for his screenplay for Pygmalion, Shaw became an international icon between the two world wars, feted from China and Soviet Russia to India and New Zealand, though still contriving to provoke the establishment in the United States, South Africa, and Ireland. He revealed himself increasingly as conjurer, fabulist, and seer through his powerful late works, including Saint Joan, the Chekhovian Heartbreak House, the modernist fantasy Back to Methuselah, and the imaginative dream plays and political extravaganzas.