Prefaces / by Bernard Shaw
1934, First Edition. London : Constable. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #443173
Physical description; viii, 802 pages 26 cm. Notes; Illustrated title page. Includes index. Printed in double columns. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Sociological. Getting married ; Parents and children (misalliance) ; Overruled ; Major Barbara ; Fanny's first play ; Killing for sport ; Man and superman ; Three plays by Brieux ; Mrs Warren's profession ; The doctor's dilemma ; Imprisonment (English local government by Sidney and Beatrice Webb) -- Political. The apple cart ; Too true to be good ; On the rocks ; Heartbreak house ; The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet ; John Bull's other island ; Family life in Germany under the blockade -- Religious. Back to Methusela ; Androcles and the lion ; Saint Joan ; The adventures of the black girl in her search for God -- Autobiographical and professional. Immaturity ; The irrational knot ; Cashel Byron's profession ; Widowers' houses (from the edition of 1893) ; Plays unpleasant ; Plays pleasant ; Three plays for Puritans ; The Dark Lady of the sonnets ; The admirable Bashville ; Our theatres in the nineties ; Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw : a correspondence ; The autobiography of a supertramp ; The sanity of art -- Miscellaneous. Pygmalion ; Great Catherine. Subjects; Shaw, Bernard 1856-1950 Prefaces. Prefaces. Drama History and criticism Theory, etc. Drama. English literature Irish authors. English literature Irish authors 20th century. English drama 20th century. Literature 20th century Prefaces. Prefaces Political. Prefaces Sociological. Prefaces Religious. Prefaces Autobiographical. Essays.
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