Bernard Shaw. Volume 1, 1856-1898 The Search For Love

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Chatto And Windus
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1988
Edition: First Edition

Description: 486 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. This Is Shaw From His Birth Through To 1856, Through A Series Of Poignant And Tantalizing Love Affairs.

Publishers Description: 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 and Eleanor Marx, he begins to establish his reputation as one of the best-known dramatists in English since Shakespeare. The biographer, Michael Holroyd has also written "Hugh Kingsmill", "Lytton Strachey" and "Augustus John".

ISBN: 0701133325