AN UNSOCIAL SOCIALIST (VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS) - Softcover

Shaw, George Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0860681343 ISBN 13: 9780860681342

Publisher: VIRAGO PRESS LTD, 1988

Synopsis

In the dusk of an October evening- a sensible looking woman of forty came out through an oaken door to a broad landing on the first floor of an old English country-house.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)

About this title

About the Author:

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings deal sternly with prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy to make their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. He was most angered by what he perceived as the exploitation of the working class, and most of his writings censure that abuse. An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles... He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaption of his play of the same name), respectively.

About this edition

• Publisher: VIRAGO PRESS LTD
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0860681343
• ISBN 13: 9780860681342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272