GEORGE BERNARD SHAW - A CRITICAL STUDY by JOSEPH MCCABE. Originally
published in 1914. No other English artist of our time has an
international audience approaching that of Bernard Shaw in size, to say
of nothng intellectual quality. He can use the journals and magazines of
half the world as his mouth pieces whenever he chooses. It may be
largely, though certainly it is not wholly, because he is a jester.
There is a deliberately shaped message in every jest, and it will
rankle. He does not want a Shavian school: his ambition is larger than
that. He wants to say what he pleases to the vast world outside all
schools, and, in his way, he has succeeded. How he has succeeded; what a
message he delivers, and what it is worth; what he has done, and failed
to do; and how you may distinguish a momentary paradox from a reasoned
conviction, it is the business of this little book to relate. It is not
a panegyric or a biography. It is a critical interpretation of the man
and his message. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating
back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high
quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
