The Adventures Of The Black Girl In Her Search For God
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: Reprint
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good/Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket — cloth/board shows wear and darkening to spine edges and corners. Page Condition: Yellowed and tanning consistent with age (1930s printing). Markings: No immediately visible markings. Binding: Appears intact but aged. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A satirical philosophical fable by one of the twentieth century's most celebrated playwrights and thinkers, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God chronicles the spiritual odyssey of a young African woman who, newly converted to Christianity, sets off into the jungle armed with a knobkerry to find God. Along the way she encounters a succession of deities and religious figures drawn from various traditions — from the wrathful God of the Old Testament to Voltaire's rationalism — each presented with Shaw's characteristic wit and savage irony. The narrative argues, with gleeful irreverence, that organised religion and its many contradictions are more a product of human imagination than divine truth. Illustrated with striking woodcut engravings by John Farleigh, this slim but audacious work remains one of Shaw's most provocative and entertaining pieces of short fiction.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Format: Hardback
Published: 1932, Constable & Company Limited
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: Reprint
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good/Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket — cloth/board shows wear and darkening to spine edges and corners. Page Condition: Yellowed and tanning consistent with age (1930s printing). Markings: No immediately visible markings. Binding: Appears intact but aged. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A satirical philosophical fable by one of the twentieth century's most celebrated playwrights and thinkers, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God chronicles the spiritual odyssey of a young African woman who, newly converted to Christianity, sets off into the jungle armed with a knobkerry to find God. Along the way she encounters a succession of deities and religious figures drawn from various traditions — from the wrathful God of the Old Testament to Voltaire's rationalism — each presented with Shaw's characteristic wit and savage irony. The narrative argues, with gleeful irreverence, that organised religion and its many contradictions are more a product of human imagination than divine truth. Illustrated with striking woodcut engravings by John Farleigh, this slim but audacious work remains one of Shaw's most provocative and entertaining pieces of short fiction.