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"The general reader, turning over the pages, will learn many things that are not of the slightest importance to him, but which he may, nevertheless, wish to know because other people occasionally write or speak of them." -Bernard Shaw, 1885
Critical Shaw: Literature is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw's ideas and opinions on a wide range of literary forms of expression, from Shakespearean drama to ghost stories, from naturalist novels to philosophical essays. Always with an axe to grind-whether aesthetic, ethical, or otherwise-Shaw tested the boundaries of satire in his essays, occasionally locking horns with some of the most prominent authors of his lifetime. Displaying wit and wisdom in equal proportions, his reviews remain fresh even though the authors and books they appraised have long since fallen into oblivion.
The Critical Shaw series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shaw's voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. Each volume is edited by a leading Shaw scholar; the series editor is L.W. Conolly, former president of the International Shaw Society.
Critical Shaw: Literature is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw's ideas and opinions on a wide range of literary forms of expression, from Shakespearean drama to ghost stories, from naturalist novels to philosophical essays. Always with an axe to grind-whether aesthetic, ethical, or otherwise-Shaw tested the boundaries of satire in his essays, occasionally locking horns with some of the most prominent authors of his lifetime. Displaying wit and wisdom in equal proportions, his reviews remain fresh even though the authors and books they appraised have long since fallen into oblivion.
The Critical Shaw series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shaw's voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. Each volume is edited by a leading Shaw scholar; the series editor is L.W. Conolly, former president of the International Shaw Society.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Shaw, George Bernard
- ISBN: 9780795348938
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 8.50 x 0.58
- Number Of Pages: 254
- Publication Year: 2016
Language:
English