The Works of George Bernard Shaw: Candida, The Man of Destiny, The Devil's Disciple, The Irrational Knot, Man and Superman, and More (36 Books With Active Table of Contents)

This collection gathers together the works by George Bernard Shaw in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!

DRAMA:

The Philanderer, Mrs Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell, The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion, Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy, John Bull's Other Island, How He Lied to Her Husband, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, The Glimpse of Reality, Press Cuttings, The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet, Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Overruled, Androcles and the Lion, Pygmalion, The Great Catherine, The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta, O'Flaherty V.C.: A Recruiting Pamphlet, Augustus Does His Bit: A True-To-Life Farce, Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress, Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes, Back to Methuselah, Saint Joan

NOVELS:

The Irrational Knot: Being the Second Novel of His Nonage, Cashel Byron's Profession, An Unsocial Socialist

ESSAYS:

The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring, 2nd Edition, Treatise on Parents and Children

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.
He was most angered by what he perceived as the exploitation of the working class. An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. For a short time he was active in local politics, serving on the London County Council.
In 1898, Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a fellow Fabian, whom he survived. They settled in Ayot St Lawrence in a house now called Shaw's Corner. Shaw died there, aged 94, from chronic problems exacerbated by injuries he incurred by falling from a ladder.
He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaptation of his play of the same name), respectively. Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright because he had no desire for public honours, but accepted it at his wife's behest: she considered it a tribute to Ireland. He did reject the monetary award, requesting it be used to finance translation of Swedish books into English.