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User Review - Citizenjoyce - LibraryThingShaw's main character certainly is unsocial. He says very pertinent things about the unfairness of the social order. He says reasonable things about the unimportance of romance. But he seems over all ... Read full review
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User Review - kerns222 - LibraryThingSometimes you see something you missed in your life of reading. GBS was one of those. He was only an icon to me with a pointy beard, no longer popular, especially with the hip and then hippie set. I ... Read full review
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Page 366 - True delight In the sight Of thy former lady's eye : And the country proverb known, That every man should take his own, In your waking shall be shown : Jack shall have Jill ; Nought shall go ill ; The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.
Page 110 - A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.
Page 328 - ... men and women, apart from and before experience, to desire sexually large persons of the opposite sex. It may even be that this is part of a wider zoological tendency. In the human species it shows itself also on the spiritual plane, in the desire for the infinite, in the deep and unreasoning feeling that it is impossible to have too much of a good thing.
Page 112 - I am helping to liberate those Manchester laborers who were my father's slaves. To bring that about, their fellow slaves all over the world must unite in a vast international association of men pledged to share the world's work justly; to share the produce of the work justly; to yield not a farthing — charity apart — to any full-grown and able-bodied idler or malingerer, and to treat as vermin in the commonwealth persons attempting to get more than their share of wealth or give less than their...
Page 88 - ... but the slave wot feeds and clothes the gentleman beyond the common." " Come," said the inspector, unable to follow these observations, " you are a clever dodger, but you can't dodge me. Have you any statement to make with reference to the lady that was last seen in your company? " " Make a statement about a lady! " said Smilash indignantly. "Far be the thought from my mind!
Page 311 - That comes of my not being a poet," said Trefusis. " But we Socialists need to study the romantic side of our movement to interest women in it. If you want to make a cause grow, instruct every 808 woman you meet in it.
Page 140 - ... is this. I am perhaps the worst skater in the world, and therefore, according to a natural law, I covet the faintest distinction on the ice more than immortal fame for the things in which nature has given me aptitude to excel. I envy that large friend of yours — Jane is her name, I think — more than I envy Plato. I came down here this morning, thinking that the skating world was all a-bed, to practice in secret." " I am glad we caught you at it," said Agatha maliciously, for he was disappointing...
Page 207 - It stumbles, and gives you the most awful tosses, and it goes lame by its treadles and thingamyjigs coming off, and it wears out, and is twice as much trouble to keep clean and scrape the mud off as a horse, and all sorts of things. I think the most ridiculous sight in the world is a man on a bicycle, working away with his feet as hard as he possibly can, and believing that his horse is carrying him instead of, as any one can see, he carrying the horse.
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| Title | An Unsocial Socialist The modern library of the world's best books |
| Author | Bernard Shaw |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Boni and Liveright, 1917 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jan 19, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0403007178, 9780403007172 |
| Length | 250 pages |
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