Download or read book George Bernard Shaw Classic Reprint written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from George Bernard Shaw And might easily. Fall under fairly conventional phrases. Ltmightbethelifeofanyduhlin clerk or Manchester Socialist or London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Bernard Shaw Classic Reprint written by Holbrook Jackson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bernard Shaw For I think our experiences tally on this point, that the author of Man and Superman, like the author of Hamlet, are both more talked about than studied, and I am quite convinced that as the touchstone to the worthiness of our Leeds friends was their attitude towards the former, so the ratio of individuals towards the modern movement of ideas must be gauged by the intelligence Of their attitude towards the same person. If Bernard Shaw's work were merely unique, we could all afford to laugh and pass on but it is a great deal more than that, it stands in the same relation to our day as the work of Swift did to his day, or Carlyle's to his, and people to-day who are ready to admit the insufficiency of intelligent discrimination then are reminded not to repeat a similar error in judgment now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Twentieth Century Moliere written by Augustin Hamon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Twentieth Century Moliere: Bernard Shaw It is always so more or less: the novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last - shaw. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book George Bernard Shaw written by Henry L. Mencken and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from George Bernard Shaw: His Plays The Origin of Species the fight against orthodoxy, custom, and authority was perennially and necessarily a losing one. On the side of the defense were ignorance, antiquity, piety, organization, and respectability - twelve inch, wire-wound, rapid-fire guns, all of them. In the hands of the scattered, half-hearted, unorganized at tacking parties there were but two weapons - the blow pipe of impious doubt and the bludgeon of sacrilege. Neither, unsupported, was very effective. Voltaire, who tried both, scared the defenders a bit and for a while there was a great pother and scurrying about, but when the smoke cleared away the walls were just as strong as before and the drawbridge was still up. One had to believe or be damned. There was no compromise and no middle ground. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book George Bernard Shaw Harlequin Or Patriot Classic Reprint written by John Palmer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from George Bernard Shaw, Harlequin or Patriot? Bernard Shaw can read diamond type with his left eye at a distance of twenty eight inches; that he can hear a note the pitch of which does not exceed vibrations per second; that, when he sits down upon a chair, the distance between the crown of his head and the seat is 3 feet, inches. These things are triv ial. Or the public knows that Ber nard Shaw is a very striking and pro vocative writer of plays, that he is also a socialist and a vegetarian; and these things are misleading. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book George Bernard Shaw written by Joseph McCabe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from George Bernard Shaw: A Critical Study Birds of paradox is unsound. Paradox is truth disguised as untruth and the disguise must be some thing subtler than exaggeration and more frivolous than honest error. But most of what is regarded as paradox in Shaw's personal expressions is either a, strategical exaggeration of what he believes to be a! Fact or a sincere conviction which is so unusual as to seem insincere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Bernard Shaw the Man and the Mask Classic Reprint written by Richard Burton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bernard Shaw the Man and the Mask The following pages attempt to give within limits somewhat sharply drawn a definite idea of the personality, the work, and the meaning of a dramatist of our day who has gained distinction, invited abuse, and secured in excess the dubious compliment of misrepresentation. SO far as the book can claim to be a contribution to the subject, it may base it on the succinctness of the presenta tion; the analyses of the plays in chronologic sequence, technic as well as teaching and literary quality in mind; and upon the chapters in which respectively Shaw's craft as an artist of the thea tre and his intellectual significance as publicist and philosopher are studied. No one can write a book on Bernard Shaw with out acknowledging the inevitable obligation to Dr. Archibald Henderson, the authoritative biographer Of the playwright, and the man best fitted to de cide any question pertaining to him. The present writer renders grateful thanks to Dr. Henderson for his quick and generous giving of information not otherwise to be secured: a debt as pleasant as it is imperative to pay in this preface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Wisdom of Bernard Shaw Classic Reprint written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wisdom of Bernard Shaw Courage; Cowardice; The Criminal Law; Criticism; The Crows that Follow the Plough; Cruelty; Democracy; Democracy and Justice; The Devil's Friends; Discipline; Discriminations; Divorce and Sacramental Marriage; The Dramatist; Duty; Economic Independence; The Economic Independence of Women; Education; The Elocutionist; The End and the Means; The English Home; The Englishman; The Englishman and the Comic Spirit; Equality About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by Percival Presland Howe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bernard Shaw: A Critical Study Legal limit of twenty miles an hour has now for some time been an earnest (and a shameful thing it should be so low l - that is what we to-day are saying); if Mr. Shaw tells us that twenty years ago it was a jest which was an earnest in the womb of time, we shall understand him quite perfectly. For centuries in England it was a jest to say that pigs might fly, and pigs may fly to-day any afternoon they are taken to Hendon. On general grounds, then, no quarrel is possible with our subject's utter ance, that a jest is an earnest in the womb of time. But on the particular ground of Mr. Shaw's own jests, we have to refuse very positively one inference from this utterance, or else this study cannot possibly be proceeded with. For one inference is that a jest of Mr. Shaw's cannot fairly be the subject of criticism until it has 'issued from the womb of time in good earnest. In other words, we may not say that we think Mr. Shaw wrong until we have given Time time to prove him right. We may not say that we think Mr. Shaw right for fear that posterity should know him to be wrong. If Mr. Shaw prophesies the full working beauties of Social Democracy in England (as he does, if only we miserable forty-eight millions have the will), we may not say whether we should personally fancy Social Democracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Euripides and Mr Bernard Shaw Classic Reprint written by Gilbert Norwood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Euripides and Mr. Bernard Shaw It is notoriously hard or impossible for any man to describe, perhaps even to understand, the history and spirit of his own generation. To observe a landscape one must ascend a hill; to comprehend a historical period one must be withdrawn from it in time. A man in a forest cannot see the wood for the trees; the principle and conditions which govern our contemporaries and ourselves are apt to be hidden from us by their very pervasiveness and proximity. But the present epoch fortunately can be understood by those who live in it better than many with the help of a strong con trast, precisely the contrast which it is my present business to indicate. Our history for the last hundred years hardly presents that continuity, that gradual harmonious progress, for which we have been taught to look in the march of human affairs. There is a real gulf between us and the middle of the nineteenth century. In England, at any rate, the march of affairs broke into a kind of hand-gallop, ending. With a leap over a chasm which can hardly be defined into a morass from which we have not yet found our way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Man and Superman written by George Bernard Shaw and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of thought-provoking drama will relish George Bernard Shaw's classic take on gender roles and relations, Man and Superman. Packed with plenty of big ideas, this engaging work helped rank Bernard Shaw among the most significant and influential dramatists of his era.
Download or read book George Bernard Shaw His Life and Works written by Archibald Henderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from George Bernard Shaw, His Life and Works: A Critical Biography (Authorized) Moms: than six years ago I conceived the idea of writing a book about Bernard Shaw. The magnitude of the undertaking and the elusiveness of the subject, had I realized them then in their full significance, might well have made me pause. My earliest interest in his work, aroused by his thoughtful laughter and piqued by his elfish impudence, convinced me that this te markable talent was like no other I had known. In characteristic style, Mr. Shaw once gave the following fantastic account of the evolution of the present work. A young American professor, Shaw explained, wished to write a book about him. Originally, he thought of beginning his task by writing an article for a daily newspaper. But so rapidly did the material grow that he soon saw the necessity of expanding the newspaper article into a long essay for a monthly review. When the essay was completed, in view of the mass of material in his hands, it appeared totally inadequate to express what he really wished to say about Bernard Shaw. It then occurred to him to write a short book entitled G. B. S. Alas This plan had also to be relinquished, for it was now manifest that in no such small compass was it possible to do justice to his subject. At last he hit upon the brilliant scheme of his final adoption: he would write a history of modern thought in twenty volumes. After considering the forerunners of his hero in the first nine teen volumes, he would devote the twentieth solely to the treatment of George Bernard Shaw. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by Margaret Shenfield and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bernard Shaw: A Pictorial Biography GE orge bernard shaw was born at 33 Synge Street, Dublin, on 26 July I 856, the fruit of an unsuitable marriage between two quite amiable people who finally separated in the friendliest fashion and saw no more of one another after spending years together in the same house without sharing one another's tastes, activities or interests. They and their children never quarrelled: though not an emotional household it was not an unkindly one.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book G B S and the Lunatic written by Lawrence Langner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from G. B. S. And the Lunatic: Reminiscences of the Long, Lively and Affectionate Friendship Between George Bernard Shaw and the Author More than a decade has passed since the death of Bernard Shaw stilled one of the most stimulating, witty, wise and argumenta tive voices in the modern world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Bernard Shaw on Modern Typography written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bernard Shaw on Modern Typography: Reprinted From the Magazine London Like most authors, I am so greatly indebted to the printer, and the printer's reader, for their work and help in the production of my books, that 1 cannot point out their shortcomings without feeling some stings of conscience for my ingratitude. Besides, an author is not a fair judge of a printer, because the author himself usually spoils the printer's work. This arises from the fact that the main difference between a well'printed page and an ill printed one lies in the evenness of the block of colour presented by the letterpress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Shaw written by J. P. Hackett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shaw: George Versus Bernard When I say that I am an Irishman I mean that I was born in Ireland, and that my native language is the English of Swift and not the unspeakable jargon of the mid-xix century London newspapers. My extraction is the extraction of most Englishmen: that is, I have no trace in me of the commercially imported North Spanish strain that passes for aboriginal Irish I am a genuine typical Irishman of the Danish, Norman, Cromwellian, ' and (of course) Scotch invasions. (pre face: by Bernard Shaw, p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Arms and the Man Large Print written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-05 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arms and the Man: Large PrintBy George Bernard ShawIndeed he knows no more about the dramatic art than, according to his own story in "The Man of Destiny," Napoleon at Tavazzano knew of the Art of War. But both men were successes each in his way--the latter won victories and the former gained audiences, in the very teeth of the accepted theories of war and the theatre. Shaw does not know that it is unpardonable sin to have his characters make long speeches at one another, apparently thinking that this embargo applies only to long speeches which consist mainly of bombast and rhetoric. There never was an author who showed less predilection for a specific medium by which to accomplish his results. He recognized, early in his days, many things awry in the world and he assumed the task of mundane reformation with a confident spirit.We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
