Bernard Shaw: The Search for Love, Vol 1 1856-1898
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Description for Bernard Shaw: The Search for Love, Vol 1 1856-1898
Hardcover. Used hardback, in good to very good condition. With dustjacket. Some shelf wear.
This is the first volume of the authorized three-volume life of George Bernard Shaw, the playwright, wit, socialist, vegetarian and polemicist. It covers the first 41 years of his life, from his birth and childhood in Dublin to his marriage in 1898 to the Irish heiress and fellow socialist, Charlotte Payne-Townshend. Having followed his mother to London, tried his hand as a novelist, become a controversial theatre critic and a founder member of the Fabian Society, won fame as an outspoken music critic and struck up friendships and rivalries with the Webbs, William Morris, Frank Harris, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry ... Read more
This is the first volume of the authorized three-volume life of George Bernard Shaw, the playwright, wit, socialist, vegetarian and polemicist. It covers the first 41 years of his life, from his birth and childhood in Dublin to his marriage in 1898 to the Irish heiress and fellow socialist, Charlotte Payne-Townshend. Having followed his mother to London, tried his hand as a novelist, become a controversial theatre critic and a founder member of the Fabian Society, won fame as an outspoken music critic and struck up friendships and rivalries with the Webbs, William Morris, Frank Harris, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Number of Pages
486
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780701133320
SKU
KRF0028486
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
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