The Infidel Half Century
THE DAWN OF DARWINISM
One day early in the eighteen hundred and sixties,
I, being then a small boy, was with my nurse, buying
something in the shop of a petty newsagent, books...
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Biography EssayA long life made Shaw's multifaceted activities possible, for he was handicapped by a decadelong false start in fiction, and even more by the circumstances of his upbringing. Born Georg...
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The British playwright, critic, and pamphleteer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) produced more than 52 plays and playlets, three volumes of music and drama criticism, and one major volume of socialist ...
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A long life made Shaw's multifaceted activities possible, for he was handicapped by a decade-long false start in fiction, and even more by the circumstances of his upbringing. Born George Bernard Shaw...
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Had Shaw died in the same year that Queen Victoria did (1901), he would not be known as one of the greatest playwrights in English since Shakespeare, but he would still be recognized as one of the maj...
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Bernard Shaw was one of the most important, and certainly the most prolific, reform writers of the twentieth century. In provocative, trenchant, and humorous style he tried to formulate a constructive...
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