Shaw the Villager and Human Being, A Biographical Symposium

London: Charles Skilton, 1961. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. "George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings deal sternly with prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy to make their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care and class privilege. He was most angered by what he perceived as the exploitation of the working class, and most of his writings censure that abuse. An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a fellow Fabian, whom he survived. They settled in Ayot St. Lawrence in a house now called Shaw's Corner. Shaw died there, aged 94, from chronic problems exacerbated by injuries he incurred by falling. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaption of his play of the same name), respectively.[1] Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright because he had no desire for public honours, but accepted it at his wife's behest: she considered it a tribute to Ireland. He did reject the monetary award, requesting it be used to finance translation of Swedish books to English. Novels Immaturity Cashel Byron's Profession An Unsocial Socialist The Irrational Knot Love Among the Artists [edit] Short stories The Black Girl in Search of God (1932) The Miraculous Revenge [edit] Drama Plays Unpleasant (published 1898) Widowers' Houses (1892) The Philanderer (1898) Mrs Warren's Profession (1893) Plays Pleasant (published 1898): Arms and the Man (1894) Candida (1894) The Man of Destiny (1895) You Never Can Tell (1897) Three Plays for Puritans (published 1901) The Devil's Disciple (1897) Caesar and Cleopatra (1898) Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1899) The Admirable Bashville (1901) Man and Superman (1902-03) John Bull's Other Island (1904) How He Lied to Her Husband (1904) Major Barbara (1905) The Doctor's Dilemma (1906) Getting Married (1908) The Glimpse of Reality (1909) The Fascinating Foundling (1909) Press Cuttings (1909) Misalliance (1910) Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress (1917) The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (1910) Fanny's First Play (1911) Overruled (1912) Androcles and the Lion (1912) Pygmalion (1912-13) The Great Catherine (1913) The Inca of Perusalem (1915) O'Flaherty VC (1915) Augustus Does His Bit (1916) Heartbreak House (1919) Back to Methuselah (1921) In the Beginning The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas The Thing Happens Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman As Far as Thought Can Reach Saint Joan (1923) The Apple Cart (1929) Too True To Be Good (1931) On the Rocks (1933) The Six of Calais (1934) The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (1934) The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet (1909) The Millionairess (1936) Geneva (1938) In Good King Charles's Golden Days (1939) Buoyant Billions (1947) Shakes versus Shav (1949) [edit] Essays Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891) The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring (1898) Maxims for Revolutionists (1903) Preface to Major Barbara (1905) How to Write a Popular Play (1909) Treatise on Parents and Children (1910) Common Sense about the War (1914) The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928) Dictators - Let Us Have More of Them (1938) "Shaw's Music: The Complete Musical Criticism Of Bernard Shaw in Three Volumes" (1955) "Shaw on Shakespeare: An Anthology of Bernard Shaw's Writings" (1961) [edit] Debate Shaw v. Chesterton, a debate between George Bernard Shaw and G. K. Chesterton (2000) Third Way Publications Ltd. ISBN 0-9535077-7-7. E-text Do We Agree, a debate between G. B. Shaw and G. K. Chesterton with Hilaire Belloc as chairman (1928).