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100 1 $aHolroyd, Michael.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79011107
245 10 $aBernard Shaw :$bthe one-volume definitive edition /$cMichael Holroyd.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c1998.
263 $a9809
300 $axiv, 833 pages ;$c25 cm
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500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aWhen Michael Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was hailed as a masterpiece. Now the biography is available for the first time in a lively and accessible abridgment by the author. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian, and irresistible charmer, Bernard Shaw was the most controversial literary figure of his age, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions.
520 8 $aAt the turn of the century, Shaw was in his prime, a theatrical impresario and author of those great campaigning plays - Man and Superman, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, and John Bull's Other Island - that used laughter as an anesthetic for the operation he performed on British society. By 1914 the author of Pygmalion was the most popular writer in England, and increasingly recognized throughout Europe and America.
520 8 $aThe reluctant recipient of a Nobel Prize for literature and an Academy Award for his screenplay for Pygmalion, Shaw became an international icon between the two world wars, feted from China and Soviet Russia to India and New Zealand, though still contriving to provoke the establishment in the United States, South Africa, and Ireland.
520 8 $aHe revealed himself increasingly as conjurer, fabulist, and seer through his powerful late works, including Saint Joan, the Chekhovian Heartbreak House, the modernist fantasy Back to Methuselah, and the imaginative dream plays and political extravaganzas.
600 10 $aShaw, Bernard,$d1856-1950.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79006533
650 0 $aDramatists, Irish$y19th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aDramatists, Irish$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102406
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