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  • Back to Methuselah

    “Back to Methuselah” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw consists of a preface (The Infidel Half Century) and a series of five plays: In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden), The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present ... Read more

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  • Pygmalion

    A Brilliant Classic That Remains Strikingly Relevant TodayPygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is one of the most celebrated plays of modern English literature, a brilliant comedy of manners that explores language, class, identity, education, and social transformation with wit and intelligence.Shaw based his 1913 play on the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion, the sculptor who despised women but fell ... Read more

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  • The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays

    Plays, novels, essays, and political satire from a Nobel Prize winner

    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer and wrote more than 60 plays. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in ... Read more

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  • AN UNSOCIAL SOCIALIST

    Enriched edition. A Humorous Political Satire on Socialism in Contemporary Victorian England

    George Bernard Shaw's 'An Unsocial Socialist' is a compelling novel that offers a satirical critique of late 19th-century British society through the lens of a young, idealistic protagonist, Sidney Trefusis. Shaw's witty and provocative writing style challenges the traditional social norms and class divisions of the time, exploring themes of socialism, individualism, and the role of women in ... Read more

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  • Pygmalion

    Pygmalion was written by George Bernard Shaw and first published in 1913. It is the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In the process, Higgins and ... Read more

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  • Saint Joan

    One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's views on the subjects of politics, religion and creative evolution. ... Read more

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  • George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Illustrated Collected Plays: Classic drama of comedy, philosophy, social critique, and political satire

    George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated) gathers the dramatic works of one of modern theatre's most incisive voices, presenting comedies, problem plays, and social satires that transformed the stage from mere entertainment into a forum for argument. Shaw's prose is brilliant, paradoxical, and combative; his dialogue fuses wit with moral inquiry. Set against the late Victorian and ... Read more

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  • The Crime of Imprisonment

    The Nobel Prize–winning social critic examines the absurdities and moral indignities of modern incarceration in this classic work.Best known for his theatrical works of biting social satire, George Bernard Shaw was also a committed political activist who, at various times, found himself in conflict with the law. Though he was never arrested, Shaw was deeply concerned with the experience of ... Read more

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  • Pygmalion

    A Play

    The most successful play by the Nobel Prize–winning Irish playwright, and basis for the movie and Broadway musical My Fair Lady.Based on the Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, George Bernard Shaw's witty adaptation features linguistic expert Professor Henry Higgins, who encounters a cockney flower seller named Eliza Doolittle. Boasting that he could pass Eliza off as a duchess by teaching her ... Read more

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  • Saint Joan

    Saint Joan is a 1923 play written by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw depicting the life of Joan of Arc and first published in 1923. ... Read more

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  • Saint Joan

    A Play

    The great Irish playwright's impassioned dramatization of the life and trial of Joan of Arc.Three years after Joan of Arc was canonized in 1920, George Bernard Shaw brought to the stage a more complex and human portrayal of the fifteenth-century French martyr, creating one of the theater's most memorable and enduring female roles. Already renowned for plays such as Pygmalion, The Arms and the Man, ... Read more

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  • Man and Superman

    Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and from authors from Conan Doyle to Kipling. In this powerful drama of ideas, Shaw explores the role of the artist, the function of ... Read more

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