The Portable Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw

Viking Press, 1977 - Fiction - 698 pages

A collection of the most notable writings of George Bernard Shaw. Includes biographical material.

Contents

• EDITORS INTRODUCTION: 1
• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: 24
• Letter to Arnold White: 30

About the author

Renowned literary genius George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. He later moved to London and educated himself at the British Museum while several of his novels were published in small socialist magazines. Shaw later became a music critic for the Star and for the World. He was a drama critic for the Saturday Review and later began to have some of his early plays produced. Shaw wrote the plays Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion, which was later adapted as My Fair Lady in both the musical and film form. He also transformed his works into screenplays for Saint Joan, How He Lied to Her Husband, Arms and the Man, Pygmalion, and Major Barbara. Shaw won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. George Bernard Shaw died on November 2, 1950 at Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England. Stanley Weintraub is Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts & Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. He has written acclaimed works of military history on World Wars I & II. He lives in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Portable Bernard Shaw; Issue 90 of Portable Library; Volume 83 of Viking portable library
• Author: Bernard Shaw
• Editor: Stanley Weintraub
• Contributor: Stanley Weintraub
• Publisher: Viking Press, 1977
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Mar 24, 2010
• ISBN: 0670639451, 9780670639458
• Length: 698 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary