Bernard Shaw The One Volume Definitive Edition

Author : Michael Holroyd
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by Michael Holroyd and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1998 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holroyd has done a masterly job of cutting down his huge biography to a lively and manageable one-volume life - the definitive Shaw for the general reader and the student. It has verve and pace, the light and shade of his life are emphasized, digressions cut, and Shaw comes over just as much larger than life as he always was, just as contrary, and even more sympathetically and movingly portrayed. This is a dazzling portrait of the man and his age.

Author : Michael Holroyd
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780701162795
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by Michael Holroyd and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1997 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holroyd has done a masterly job of cutting down his huge biography to a lively and manageable one-volume life - the definitive Shaw for the general reader and the student. It has verve and pace, the light and shade of his life are emphasized, digressions cut, and Shaw comes over just as much larger than life as he always was, just as contrary, and even more sympathetically and movingly portrayed. This is a dazzling portrait of the man and his age. (With index but without source notes. ) The original four-volume biography was received with acclaim by the critics: 'IN EVERY SENSE A SPECTACULAR PIECE OF WORK. . . A FEAT OF STYLE AS MUCH RESEARCH, WHICH WILL SURELY MAKE IT A FLAMBOYANT NEW LANDMARK IN MODERN ENGLISH LIFE-WRITING. ' RICHARD HOLMES, THE TIMES 'A MASTERLY EXERCISE IN BIOGRAPHICAL MAGIC' JOHN OSBOURNE 'A CONSUMMATELY ORGANIZED MASTERPIECE. . . FULL OF POLISH AND PUNCH' ROY FORSTER 'THE PURSUIT OF BERNARD SHAW HAS GROWN, AND TURNED INTO THE PURSUIT OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. ' PETER ACKROYD.

Author : Michael Holroyd
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393343715
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition written by Michael Holroyd and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We regard Mr. Holroyd with awe, as a prodigy among biographers."—The New York Times Book Review In a single-volume format, Michael Holroyd's masterpiece of a biography offers new verve and pace; Shaw's world is more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship.

Author : Michael Holroyd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784971405
Total Pages : 1252 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by Michael Holroyd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian and charmer, Bernard Shaw was a controversial literary figure, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. This is Michael Holroyd's essential biography of George Bernard Shaw. With its pace and verve, its comedy, drama and politics, it portrays a provocative and paradoxical figure sympathetically and movingly.

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 152904801X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pygmalion & Other Plays written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw is one of the most famous and celebrated Irish playwrights and this new collection brings together the very best of his witty and entertaining comedies in one volume; Pygmalion, Major Barbara and Androcles and the Lion. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has a preface by Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench. Pygmalion was first performed in 1914 and was an instant hit which then inspired the hit musical and award winning film, My Fair Lady. It tells the story of Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, who tries to elevate a feisty flower girl out of her working-class roots and into high society. In Major Barbara, idealistic Barbara is a major in the Salvation Army, at odds with her millionaire father as they war over the best route to salvation. Androcles and the Lion is a clever retelling of the Bible story about a gentle Christian who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw. All three plays are not only wonderfully amusing, they also showcase Shaw's intense concerns about poverty, class and inequality.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557835611
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaw on Shakespeare written by Bernard Shaw and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). "With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his." - From SHAW ON SHAKESPEARE Celebrated playwright, critic and essayist George Bernard Shaw was more like the Elizabethan master that he would ever admit. Both men were intristic dramatists who shared a rich and abiding respect for the stage. Shakespeare was the produce of a tempestuous and enlightening era under the reign of his patron, Queen Elizabeth I; while G.B.S. reflected the racy and risque spirt of the late 19th century as the champion of modern drama by playwrights like Ibsen, and, later, himself. Culled from Shaw's reviews, prefaces, letters to actors and critics, and other writings, SHAW ON SHAKESPEARE offers a fascinating and unforgettable portrait of the 16th century playwright by his most outspoken critic. This is a witty and provocative classic that combines Shaw's prodigious critical acumen with a superlative prose style second to none (except, perhaps, Shakespeare!).

Author : Michael Holroyd
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780701133504
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by Michael Holroyd and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of a set of three on the life of Bernard Shaw which starts at the beginning of Shaw's marriage in 1898 and finishes at the end of the First World War.

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101157666
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plays by George Bernard Shaw written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishness—coating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman, the great playwright satirizes society, military heroism, marriage, and the pursuit of man by woman. From a social, literary, and theatrical standpoint, these four plays are among the foremost dramas of the age—as intellectually stimulating as they are thoroughly enjoyable. “My way of joking is to tell the truth: It is the funniest joke in the world.”—G. B. Shaw With an Introduction by Eric Bentley and an Afterword by Norman Lloyd

Author : Michael Holroyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780701133504
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by Michael Holroyd and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : New York : Viking
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Letters: 1874-1897 written by Bernard Shaw and published by New York : Viking. This book was released on 1985 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: