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Prefaces By Bernard Shaw
£9.20
red cloth gilt elttering no dust jacket 802 pp
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| Publisher | Constable And Company Limited, First edition (1 Jan. 1934) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 802 pages |
by Jaitsri Kaur Bhatia
Fairly good condition. Thank you.
by Lindsey Clare Gee-Turner
Worth reading as it’s interesting what even intelligent people think at the time on things like Egypt. Amusing & entertaining writer with comments on lots of subjects! No wonder my Head of English teacher at school said that ‘I might enjoy him when I’m older’!
by A. J. Adlington
I would recommend reading G K Chesterton’s George Bernard Shaw along with this and his plays. I found I needed both to stay on balance. G B S is a very hard hitter.
I went to see St Joan recently and was very impressed by the scholarship and wit of the playwright. It was the first of his plays that I had seen and I started to read the book of the play immediately after seeing the play. The preface written by GBS was very thorough on the background and I thought unusually fair. It dispelled my vague illusions about the period and the circumstances.
I moved on to another play Androcles and the Lion, a rather silly play and another very long preface with an extended liberal and personal interpretation of Christendom which helps explain why Christian Religion became relatively unpopular in the UK during the 20th Century. The book has very weak theology, and little else than a good battering for those who like a stand up fight to commend it.
I continued to read the other plays and prefaces: Arms and the Man, Candida, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra and a giant work on censorship in a preface to the Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet, which is not a great play.
This book has several prefaces and other articles that punch holes in dull preconceptions, and shake even our true perceptions.
by 007YvonneK
This book was the most prized posession of my father who sadly had to sell his copy when I was very small, it was his greatest wish to own another copy of this book. For those that have read this book it is a gem of a find. Thank you.