The Webb's Masterpiece, By Bernard Shaw
Author : Bernard Shaw
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Passfield, Sidney James Webb, Baron, 1859-
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Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Passfield, Sidney James Webb, Baron, 1859-
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Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780271015484
This new volume of Bernard Shaw's book reviews is a companion to Brian Tyson's previously edited collection of Shaw's earlier book reviews. Here Tyson collects seventy-three of the best remaining literary book reviews written by Shaw throughout his lifetime. Two-thirds of the reviews appear in book form for the first time, the originals residing in the archives of newspaper libraries, and only three of the remainder have been reprinted within the last twenty years. Politics feature largely in the works that Shaw reviewed: there are books of socialist theory and its practical appearance in the Soviet Union, as well as books on the individualism of J. H. Levy, the anti-socialism of Thomas McKay, and the economics of E. C. K. Gonner and Philip Wicksteed. There is often an immediacy about the books reviewed, too: discussion of books on World War I, the Soviet Revolution, women's suffrage, the British General Strike of 1926, and World War II all take place concurrently with the events. Many of the works reviewed are biographies, which give Shaw the opportunity to reveal his personal acquaintance with their subjects, including Samuel Butler, William Morris, and Dean Inge. This widely varied collection sparkles with wit and wisdom, taking us briskly through Shaw's own writing life, beginning when he was relatively unknown and concluding when he was a legend.
Author : Dan H. Laurence
Publisher :
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 1983
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Author : Peter Gahan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3319484427
This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb’s ground-breaking pre-World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality, redistribution and democracy in a developed economy. The ten years following his great 1905 play on poverty Major Barbara present a puzzle to Shaw scholars, who have hitherto failed to appreciate both the centrality of the idea of equality in major plays like Getting Married, Misalliance, and Pygmalion, and to understand that his major political work, 1928’s The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism had its roots in this period before the Great War. As both the era’s leading dramatist and leader of the Fabian Society, Shaw proposed his radical postulate of equal incomes as a solution to those twin scourges of a modern industrial society: poverty and inequality. Set against the backdrop of Beatrice Webb’s famous Minority Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law 1905-1909 – a publication which led to grass-roots campaigns against destitution and eventually the Welfare State – this book considers how Shaw worked with Fabian colleagues, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and H. G. Wells to explore through a series of major lectures, prefaces and plays, the social, economic, political, and even religious implications of human equality as the basis for modern democracy.
Author : Michel W. Pharand
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271025193
Shaw, now in its twenty-fourth year, publishes general articles on Shaw and his milieu, reviews, notes, and the authoritative Continuing Checklist of Shaviana, the bibliography of Shaw studies.
Author : Hesketh Pearson
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 075515441X
First published in 1942, Hesketh Pearson’s much lauded biography has been hailed as the standard work on George Bernard Shaw. Pearson wrote it with the close cooperation of Shaw. All aspects of Shaw’s life are explored including politics, personal life, letters, writings, contribution to English theatre and famous personalities of his time.
Author : Hesketh Pearson
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Authors, English
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Author : Michael Holroyd
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393343715
"We regard Mr. Holroyd with awe, as a prodigy among biographers."—The New York Times Book Review In a single-volume format, Michael Holroyd's masterpiece of a biography offers new verve and pace; Shaw's world is more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2015-05-23
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ISBN : 9781512343953
At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts of the town of Websterbridge. She is not a prepossessing woman. No woman looks her best after sitting up all night; and Mrs. Dudgeon's face, even at its best, is grimly trenched by the channels into which the barren forms and observances of a dead Puritanism can pen a bitter temper and a fierce pride.
Author : Michael Seidman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1108417787
The first comprehensive scholarly account of antifascism, analysing its development in Spain, France, Britain and the USA.