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Author: G W Shaw Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Jacob Meaney makes so little money as a translator that his girlfriend has given up on him. Then Eloise, an...

Jacob Meaney makes so little money as a translator that his girlfriend has given up on him. Then Eloise, an Australian digital marketer, appears out of the blue, offering him...

This study of Shaw is an attempt to provide a record of the impact Shaw made on his contemporaries and of the way in which he presented himself and his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersGeorge Bernard Shaw — playwright, polemicist, and provocateur — remains one...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography illuminates the multifaceted life and enduring legacy of George Bernard Shaw, one of the twentieth century's most...

Edition: First edCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Small chip at bottom corner - otherwise fine.Few figures of the British colonial era...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThirty Years With G.B.S. chronicles an intimate, decades-long association with the towering literary figure, George Bernard Shaw. This compelling memoir...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markings"The Genius of Shaw: A Symposium" presents a vibrant collection of critical essays that examines the life, work, and enduring...

Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of socialist politics and feminist thought stands George Bernard Shaw — playwright, provocateur, and unlikely champion of women's autonomy...

A barbed attack on the British class system, Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza...

The original 'state-of-England' play. When Ellie Dunn joins a house-party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for money rather...

Bernard Shaw fashioned public images of himself that belied the nature and depth of his emotional experiences and the complexity of his intellectual outlook. In this absorbing biography, noted Shavian...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded, some chipping at edges (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the outbreak...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA rich work of literary criticism and biography, The Genius of Shaw: A Symposium presents a multifaceted portrait...

Author: Bernard Shaw; Feliks Topolski (illustrator)Binding: HardbackPublished: Constable and Company, 1939Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Frontispiece and...

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This work starts with an introduction by J.H. Stape, St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill. Written in 1930, "Bernard Shaw: An Unauthorised Biography" (1930) appeared shortly after Frank Harris' death....

___________________ SELECTIONS FROM GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S POSTBAG ____________________ '...wonderful entertainment' - Julian Symons, SUNDAY TIMES 'Shaw's charm and brilliance pervade this book' - Piers Brendon, OBSERVER '...sparkling celebration of a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFor scholars, students, and devoted admirers of one of literature's most formidable intellects, SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Volume Twenty-Seven presents a rigorous and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingBefore George Bernard Shaw conquered the theatrical world with his incendiary plays and polemical wit, he spent nearly a decade as one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew literary figures in the English-speaking world command the stage with the same ferocious wit...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind every great playwright, it seems, stands a constellation of remarkable women — and no writer proved this more dramatically than George Bernard Shaw....

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind every great playwright stands a constellation of women who shaped his genius — and in George Bernard...

Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, he is determined to overthrow a society riddled with class and sexual exploitation. Henrietta, his adoring wife, 'loves' him:...

Author: A. G. L. ShawBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Red cloth in good condition. Good DJ with shelf wear. Clean and...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. One of the most beloved musicals ever staged, My Fair Lady transforms George Bernard Shaw's sharp-tongued...

Author: Allan ChappelowBinding: HardbackPublished: Charles Skilton Ltd., 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis essential guide, Law And The Manager,...

A landmark of modern drama Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not...

The book titled Bernard Shaw: 1856-1898: The Search for Love by the author Michael Holroyd. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A lively new biography of Tutankhamun-published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb's modern discovery The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 sparked imaginations across the globe. While Howard Carter...

Author: Bernard ShawBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Sun-faded spine, top-edge discoloured from tanning.Shaw's Music: 2 compiles the incisive and...

Author: Margery M. MorganBinding: PaperbackPublished: Methuen & Co, 1972Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis academic work presents a comprehensive analysis of George...

Edition: ReprintCondition 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)....

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA monumental work of dramatic philosophy, Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch presents Bernard Shaw's sweeping vision of...

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Author: Bernard ShawBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Sun-faded spine, discoloured top-edge from tanning.Shaw's Music 3, a compelling volume from...

Author: Andrew SaintBinding: PaperbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAndrew Saint's definitive biography, Richard Norman Shaw, chronicles the influential...