Bernard Shaw Vol 1 : 1856 - 1898 : The Search for Love

Holroyd, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0701133325 ISBN 13: 9780701133320

Published by Chatto & Windus, 1988

Language: English

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Bernard Shaw Vol 1 : 1856 - 1898 : The Search for Love

Publisher

Chatto & Windus

Publication Date

1988

Language

English

ISBN 10

0701133325

ISBN 13

9780701133320

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Shaw's life. Shelf 9

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Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was hailed as a masterpiece, and William Golding predicted that it would take its place "among the great biographies." Now the biography is available for the first time in a lively and accessible abridgment by the author. This is the quintessence of Shaw. The narrative has a new verve and pace, and the light and shade of Shaw's world are more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship.
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. Born in Dublin in 1856, he grew up there, a lonely child in an unsettling m�nage � trois. His father, George Carr Shaw, had turned to drink, and his mother was muse to a Svengali-like music teacher whom she foll

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