George Bernard Shaw created pioneering dramas that probed prevailing social problems with a vein of comedy that made their stark themes more palatable, while striving to make the world aware of the exploitation of the working classes. This comprehensive eBook presents most complete edition possible of Shaw’s works in the US, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Shaw’s life and works

* Concise introductions to the novels, plays and other texts

* 44 plays, with individual contents tables

* Includes rare dramas, available in no other collection

* 4 novels, with individual contents tables

* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Includes almost the complete non-fiction, including Shaw’s seminal work on Ibsen

* Special criticism study on Shaw by G. K. Chesterton, evaluating Shaw’s contribution to literature

* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

* UPDATED with two plays that recently entered the US public domain

Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, 26 later plays, the novel IMMATURITY and Shaw’s short story collection cannot appear in this edition. When new texts become available in your public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update.

CONTENTS:

The Novels

The Irrational Knot

Love Among the Artists

Cashel Byron’s Profession

An Unsocial Socialist

The Plays

Passion Play

Un Petit Drame

The Cassone

Widowers’ Houses

The Philanderer

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

Arms and the Man

Candida

The Man of Destiny

You Never Can Tell

The Devil’s Disciple

The Gadfly

Caesar and Cleopatra

Captain Brassbound’s Conversion

The Admirable Bashville, or Constancy Unrewarded

Man and Superman

John Bull’s Other Island

How He Lied to Her Husband

Major Barbara

Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction

The Doctor’s Dilemma

The Interlude at the Playhouse

Getting Married

The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

Press Cuttings

Fascinating Foundling: Disgrace to the Author

The Glimpse of Reality

Suggested Act III Ending for Barker’s ‘The Madras House’

Misalliance

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

Fanny’s First Play

Androcles and the Lion

Overruled: A Demonstration

Beauty’s Duty

Pygmalion

Great Catherine

The Music Cure

O’flaherty, V. C.

The Inca of Perusalem

Augustus Does His Bit

Glastonbury Skit

Macbeth Skit

Skit for the Tiptaft Revue

Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress

Heartbreak House

Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch

The War Indemnities

Jitta’s Atonement

Saint Joan

The Non-Fiction

The Perfect Wagnerite

Quintessence of Ibsenism

The Impossibilities of Anarchism

The Revolutionist’s Handbook and Pocket Companion

Maxims for Revolutionists

The Criticism

George Bernard Shaw by G. K. Chesterton

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