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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