Bernard Shaw: the New Biography
β Scribed by Michael Holroyd
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 754 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1784971405
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β¦ Synopsis
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.
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