Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition - Rilegato

Holroyd, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0375500499 ISBN 13: 9780375500497

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1998

Riassunto

A one-volume abridgement of Holroyd's acclaimed two-volume study of George Bernard Shaw chronicles the private life and work of a towering literary figure, from 1856 to 1950. 15,000 first printing.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Michael Holroyd was born in 1935 and is part Irish and half Swedish. He is the author of acclaimed biographies of Hugh Kingsmill, Lytton Strachey, and Augustus John. (The film Carrington, directed by Christopher Hampton, was based on his Lytton Strachey, and a film based on Augustus John is in preparation.) His four-     volume biography of Shaw was originally published between 1988 and 1992, after fifteen years of research and writing. Holroyd was awarded the CBE in 1989. He lives in London and Somerset and is married to the writer Margaret Drabble.

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Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was hailed as a masterpiece, and William Golding predicted that it would take its place "among the great biographies." Now the biography is available for the first time in a lively and accessible abridgment by the author. This is the quintessence of Shaw. The narrative has a new verve and pace, and the light and shade of Shaw's world are more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship.
Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian, and irresistible charmer, Bernard Shaw was the most controversial literary figure of his age, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. Born in Dublin in 1856, he grew up there, a lonely child in an unsettling ménage à trois. His father, George Carr Shaw, had turned to drink, and his mother was muse to a Svengali-like music teacher whom she foll

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0375500499
• ISBN 13: 9780375500497
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 833
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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