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1. Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw | |
Paperback: 78
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(2010-03-06)
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A play about ancients that makes us think about our own time
Funny, smart, and original
Reading Shaw's works are a genuine treat...
A high-stakes game of chess!
Caesar and Cleopatra |
2. Plays by George Bernard Shaw by George Bernard Shaw | |
Paperback: 528
Pages
(2004-08-03)
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Plays by George Bernard Shaw
G.B. Shaw collection
The best of GBS One of my science teachers recited this famous speech in the lab one day, just to show off, and I started appreciating Shaw. Funny thing is that of all the playwrights, GBS is the best just to read. Except for Pygmalion and maybe Arms and the Man, most of Shaw's plays are too "talky" to stage well, but read like short stories. If you haven't read them, you are in for a treat.
A Good Shaw Overview Some thought provokingsocial statements are made in all four plays, though some of the prefacesmight be more informative about the author than the plays themselves. Greatwitticisms and depsite the sometimes heavy philosophy, the reading is lightand quick. The last play, Man And Superman, perhaps his most significantplay in terms of philosophy, pure and simple, would be fun reading but thesocialist's handbook given at the end would definitely not be everyone'scup of tea, unless they're philosophy students. This can be skipped withoutspoiling the play though, which contains some of the most excellentdialogue I've come across in a play with philosophical overtones. AllOscar Wilde and Chesterton lovers would appreciate the epigrams and thewitty one-liners. If for nothing else, Shaw is worth reading for his lovelystyle of execution, the flowing conversations and some uncanny insight. ... Read more |
3. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism & Capitalism by George Bernard Shaw | |
Paperback: 450
Pages
(2010-12-16)
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one of the twentieth century's greatest... It purported to be a political primer for the "intelligent woman" who knew little or nothing of politics. This literary device of addressing an imaginary, ignorant audience allowed Shaw to start from the beginning. Clear your mind of all preconceptions, he said, and let us first look at the facts. What are the conditions under which the mass of mankind lives in the industrialized world? What is "politics"? What is the real meaning of the words "capitalism" and "socialism" and "communism"? What is the present state of society if examined without any of these labels? Why is it like this? Having cleared the ground, Shaw then addressed that most fundamental of all social questions, the question to which his entire adult life had been devoted. How is the wealth of the world to be divided up? Shaw was (to put it mildly) a committed socialist. And The Guide pulled no punches in asserting that socialism is the only sane answer to that question. However, he played scrupulously fair in his presentation of the facts. He described with absolute clarity the causes, conditions and present (1927) state of private property, political parties, banking, revolutions, facism, the stock market, credit, the national debt, universal adult suffrage, investment, strikes and poverty. In short, the primary value of this extraordinary work was its conceptual clarity. Whether or not readers shared Shaw's opinions, merely by reading the book they could not help but greatly - and usefully - increase their understanding of their world. The question for modern readers, seventy-five years later, is whether The Guide can help us to understand the modern world. The answer is Yes. As a test, borrow a copy of the book and read the chapter entitled "Banking". Just that one chapter. If you do not understand at least twice as much about what a bank is, and does, than you did before, then you need not bother with anything else in the book and you can return it with thanks. Otherwise, as a clincher, read the chapter entitled "Revolutions". I will be very surprised if you do not then buy your own copy. That said, there are a couple of traps. Firstly, Shaw's English is now somewhat dated. He often uses very much longer sentences, with more subordinate clauses, than we commonly do today. This is ultimately helpful in conveying his meaning, but not immediately so to the modern reader. The Guide is therefore somewhat wearing to read for any length of time. It is not an easy book to skim. Secondly, since Shaw does have a definite polemical intention (he wants us to become socialists), and since few writers have ever been more skilful at delivering a message while appearing not to, the reader has to be permanently on guard against taking Shaw's statements as facts. He is expert at the art of covertly leading readers to his own conclusions. The effort required to resist all this is also rather exhausting. These shortcomings aside, and they are significant, The Guide stands as one of the great literary political works of the twentieth century. It is also one of the few genuinely hopeful contributions to the discipline we now call sociology. This reflects neither an earlier, cheerier worldview (in 1927 in England there was every reason to despair), nor a utopian naïveté (Shaw had a clearer sense than most of the horrors of which mankind is capable). No, the sense of hope that suffuses The Guide derives from Shaw's own inextinguishable, strangely realistic generosity of spirit. In comparing Shaw with his famous fellow-socialist author H.G.Wells, C.P.Snow commented that "Shaw was a kinder, but colder man". He was. And both his kindness and his coldness inform The Guide: matchless detachment, combined with the utmost charity and reasonableness. "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism" was George Bernard Shaw's political magnum opus. He had spent much of the previous forty years writing about politics and society, often in the guise of drama, musical criticism or "prefaces" to his published plays. And he continued to do so for the remainder of his life, the last major political work appearing only a few years before his death in 1950. But this book is It. "The Intelligent Woman's Guide" summarizes all his thinking, all his reading, all his public speaking, all his experience, all his hopes and all his fears for the future. It is the culmination of a lifetime dedicated to the betterment of mankind by political means. In his twenty more years of work - including "The Apple Cart", "Too True to be Good", and "Everybody's Political What's What" - Shaw never wrote anything as good again. There was nothing more he needed to say.
from the very first page
Probably more relevent now than ever! |
4. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw | |
Kindle Edition: 96
Pages
(2004-03-30)
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A Good Adaptation of a Classic Play
A brilliant satire on the British class system!
This is the best and most famous of Shaw's works.
All kinds of hilarity!
Higgins:"Oh, I can't be bothered with young women....Besides, theyre all idiots." |
5. George Bernard Shaw: Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw | |
Paperback: 148
Pages
(2010-07-12)
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6. Getting Married (mobi) by George Bernard Shaw | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2008-08-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter and act. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ************ More e-Books from MobileReference - Best Books. Best Price. Best Search and Navigation (TM) All fiction books are only $0.99. All collections are only $5.99 Search for any title: enter mobi (shortened MobileReference) and a keyword; for example: mobi Shakespeare Literary Classics: Over 10,000 complete works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Dickens, Tolstoy, and other authors. All books feature hyperlinked table of contents, footnotes, and author biography. Books are also available as collections, organized by an author. Collections simplify book access through categorical, alphabetical, and chronological indexes. They offer lower price, convenience of one-time download, and reduce clutter of titles in your digital library. Religion: The Illustrated King James Bible, American Standard Bible, World English Bible (Modern Translation), Mormon Church's Sacred Texts Philosophy: Rousseau, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, Marx, Engels Travel Guides and Phrasebooks for All Major Cities: New York, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Prague, Beijing, Greece Medical Study Guides: Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacology, Abbreviations and Terminology, Human Nervous System, Biochemistry College Study Guides: FREE Weight and Measures, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Statistics, Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Mythology History: Art History, American Presidents, U.S. History, Encyclopedias of Roman Empire, Ancient Egypt Health: Acupressure Guide, First Aid Guide, Art of Love, Cookbook, Cocktails, Astrology Reference: The World's Biggest Mobile Encyclopedia; CIA World Factbook, Illustrated Encyclopedias of Birds, Mammals Customer Reviews (1)
great ebook |
7. Seven Plays by George Bernard Shaw | |
Hardcover:
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(2000-01)
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8. The Philanderer (mobi) by George Bernard Shaw | |
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(2008-08-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Philanderer is an 1898 play by G. Bernard Shaw. - Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. More e-Books from MobileReference - Best Books. Best Price. Best Search and Navigation (TM) All fiction books are only $0.99. All collections are only $5.99 Search for any title: enter mobi (shortened MobileReference) and a keyword; for example: mobi Shakespeare Literary Classics: Over 10,000 complete works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Dickens, Tolstoy, and other authors. All books feature hyperlinked table of contents, footnotes, and author biography. Books are also available as collections, organized by an author. Collections simplify book access through categorical, alphabetical, and chronological indexes. They offer lower price, convenience of one-time download, and reduce clutter of titles in your digital library. Religion: The Illustrated King James Bible, American Standard Bible, World English Bible (Modern Translation), Mormon Church's Sacred Texts Philosophy: Rousseau, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, Marx, Engels Travel Guides and Phrasebooks for All Major Cities: New York, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Prague, Beijing, Greece Medical Study Guides: Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacology, Abbreviations and Terminology, Human Nervous System, Biochemistry College Study Guides: FREE Weight and Measures, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Statistics, Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Mythology History: Art History, American Presidents, U.S. History, Encyclopedias of Roman Empire, Ancient Egypt Health: Acupressure Guide, First Aid Guide, Art of Love, Cookbook, Cocktails, Astrology Reference: The World's Biggest Mobile Encyclopedia; CIA World Factbook, Illustrated Encyclopedias of Birds, Mammals Customer Reviews (1)
The Philanderer - An Unpleasant Play |
9. Pygmalion (Enriched Classics Series) by George Bernard Shaw | |
Mass Market Paperback: 224
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(2005-07-26)
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Editorial Review Product Description An idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic drama set in turn-of-the-century London. This Enriched Classic Edition includes: • A concise introduction that gives readers important background information • A chronology of the author's life and work • A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context • An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations • Detailed explanatory notes • Critical analysis including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work • Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction • A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. Series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson Customer Reviews (3)
Better than the movie!
Incredible Wit and Social Commentary: A Great Play With Importance Today
GREAT |
10. Plays Extravagant (Shaw Library) by George Bernard Shaw | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(1992-05-05)
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11. George Bernard Shaw's Plays (Norton Critical Editions) by George Bernard Shaw | |
Paperback: 560
Pages
(2002-04)
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Editorial Review Product Description "Contexts and Criticism" features all-new material on the author and his work, from traditional critical readings to more theorized approaches, among them essays on Shaw's Fabianism and his alleged feminism. Contributors include Leon Hugo, Sally Peters, Tracy C. Davis, John A. Bertolini, Stanley Weintraub, and J. Ellen Gainor. About the series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide. Customer Reviews (2)
Good for the reference shelf.
Shaw |
12. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by George Bernard Shaw | |
Paperback: 576
Pages
(1995-07-27)
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13. Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw | |
Kindle Edition: 284
Pages
(2007-10-23)
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Dated
Put this one on top of your reading list
An Unsocial Socialist |
14. Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2009-10-04)
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satire against imperial culture
Antebellum world
Be careful with this edition...
"He is not dead: He is only asleep" The play opens as a young woman, Ellie Dunn, arrives at the house, ostensibly the guest of Hesione.With no one to greet her, and her bags left on the front porch of the house, Ellie finds her way into the boat-like drawing room, where she meets the indefatigable Nurse Guinness, and the inscrutable Captain Shotover, who is in the midst of his latest plan to usefully dispose of the hoard of dynamite he keeps in the garden.Gradually, the party fills out as Hesione, Hector, Lady Utterword (nee Shotover), Randall Utterword (the melancholy brother-in-law), Mazzini Dunn (soldier of freedom and Ellie's father), and Boss Mangan (capitalist and Ellie's intended) arrive at this bizarre house.Hesione plans to break off Ellie's engagement to the much older Mangan, and free her to follow the course of romance, while Utterwood and Hector variously pursue their sister-in-law.Of course, Shaw does not let his characters, nor his audience, off with a simple comedy of manners. Shaw uses the play to expose the play of civilization, in which we all have a part, but with much more comic viciousness than Wilde, and with (possibly) more brute directness than Swift.The most explicit butt of Shaw's circuitous and rapid-fire dialogues is Mangan, whose gruff capitalist demeanor and pursuit of money and reputation is ultimately the guidepost of society as Shaw envisions it.As the lowest common denominator, Mangan's crudity reflects upwards at the socially climbing Ellie, the egregious nonchalance of Hesione, and the almost intentional insanity of Captain Shotover.Shaw implies that if Mangan and his ilk are running the show, then everyone who is not working to change it is complicit in its depredations.Listless bohemians, like Hesione and Hector, give the lie to their apparent graces, in an effort to maintain sanity in the midst of their perpetual confinement with each other.Lady Utterword's complaisance belies her loveless existence, and Mazzini Dunn's servility is the mark of an idealist who has given up his ideals in favor of subsistence.Is the refinement we everyday pretend to, nothing more than a thin veneer for the animal instincts that, if broached, would expose us as Swiftian Yahoos, as Shaw implies in his Preface, or as mere children, left in charge of ever more dangerous means of annihilating everyone and everything? The tool of satire, in the hands of a master like Shaw, compels us to examine our own lives, and the ways we live them.Does Shaw call us to action, or merely to honest self-reflection?Either way, even at this late date, nearly a century later, we are still living in "Heartbreak House" - and Shaw's challenge to us is more urgent than ever. Ultimately, Shaw's message is that we are not dead yet - only asleep; can we awaken before it is too late?If we are monstrous enough to blow up the preacher's house, in the early 20th century or the early 21st, then each of us must be our own Savior - a notion which should be as empowering as it is horrifying.
The absurd serving utopia Dr Jacques COULARDEAU ... Read more |
15. Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2002-07-01)
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16. The Wit and Wisdom of George Bernard Shaw by George Bernard Shaw | |
Paperback: 448
Pages
(2011-01-20)
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17. Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2009-10-04)
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"-Y' Tu Brutus..?", or "Why I Like This Book, but Hate the Vendor'
Thought provoking and hilarious
As a woman I have to agree with Shaw's theory...
Brilliant!!!!
The Heritage Edition of Man and Superman |
18. The Portable Bernard Shaw (Viking Portable Library) by George Bernard Shaw | |
Paperback: 698
Pages
(1977-09-29)
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19. A Treatise on Parents and Children (Webster's English Thesaurus Edition) by George Bernard Shaw | |
Paperback: 186
Pages
(2008-05-29)
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20. The Doctor's Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw | |
Paperback: 92
Pages
(2009-01-01)
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