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100 1 $aHolroyd, Michael.
245 10 $aBernard Shaw /$cby Michael Holroyd.
260 $aLondon :$bPimlico,$c2011.
300 $axiv, 834 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
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520 0 $a"Michael Holroyd has done a masterly job of editing his definitive multi-volume biography of Bernard Shaw and presenting a lively and succinct one-volume Life. Here is the essential GBS for the general reader, with its pace and verve, its comedy, drama and politics, it shows a provocative figure sympathetically and movingly portrayed." --Back cover.
505 0 $aPreface -- One (1. Fermenting genealogy ; 2. An Irish marriage ; 3. Devil of a childhood ; 4. The magician appears ; 5. Ménage à trois -- 6. The shame of education ; 7. Music in Dublin) -- Two (1. The ghosting of Vandeleur Lee ; 2. Experiments with the novel ; 3. Some further experiments ; 4. Respectable habits ; 5. On growing a beard ; 6. Courting Miss Lockett ; 7. Death and a renewal) -- Three (1. In search of a family ; 2. Heroes and friends ; 3. The prospective lover ; 4. Introducing Sidney Webb) -- Four (1. The perfect Ibsenite ; 2. A crust for the critics ; 3. Mystical betrothal ; 4. Corno di Bassetto -- 5. Exits and entrances) -- Five (1. The courtship of the Webbs ; 2. PLays unpleasant ; 3. Arms and the Man ; 4. The playwright and the actress ; 5. Candidamania) -- Six (1. Living with the Saturday ; Some dramatic opinions ; Tilting with Henry Irving ; 4. Candida refinished ; 5. A first play for Puritans) -- Seven (1. St Pancras vestryman ; 2. Courtship dances ; 3. A terrible adventure) -- Eight (1. The happy accidents of marriage ; 2. On heroines and hero-worship ; 3. Boer War manoeuvres) -- Nine (1. Some unexpected characters ; 2. Home life and holidays ; 3. Shakes versus Shav ; 4. Man and Superman ; 5. John Bull's Other Island ; 6. Granville Barker comes to court ; 7. Curtain up on Major Barbara) -- Ten (1. Fabian bedfellows ; 2. Wells joins the cast ; 3. A revolution at the Court ; 4. Concerning The Doctor's Dilemma ; 5. Invasion of the West End) -- Eleven (1. Sitting to Rodin ; 2. A cat and dog life ; 3. Getting Married and staying married ; 4. Slave of the automobile ; 5. A treatise on biography ; 6. Shewing up the censorship) -- Twelve (1. The gods and Misalliance ; 2. Further particulars on Mr Wells ; 3. Skits and farces ; 4. On the sub-text of success ; 5. Dearest liar) -- Thirteen (1. Concerning fame and anonymity ; 2. The history of Pygmalion ; 3. What he did in the Great War ; 4. Touring the trenches ; 5. The recruiting officer ; 6. Anglo-Irish politics ; 7. Casualties of war) -- Fourteen (1. Some hints on the peace ; 2. Shaw's heartbreak ; 3. Miss Cross Patch comes to stay ; 4. Tragedy on an elderly gentleman ; 5. Home Rule for England ; 6. Free will in translation) -- Fifteen (1. Collaborating with a saint ; 2. The end and a beginning ; 3. An idle romance ; 4. Intelligent women and the body politic) -- Sixteen (1. Striking an attitude ; 2. Upsetting The Apple Cart ; 3. Author of himself ; 4. The Celtic-Hibernian school ; 5. The boxer and the nun) -- Seventeen (1. Elopement to Russia ; 2. A pilgrim's progress ; 3. Missionary travels ; 4. Prefaces to death) -- Eighteen (1. The demands of the political theatre ; 2. Undergoing a sea change ; 3. Spontaneous resurrection ; 4. Paperback and celluloid ; 5. Three plays for historians ; 6. Trebitsch über alles) -- Nineteen (1. Uncommon sense and careless talk ; 2. Wife and widower ; 3. Some late appearances ; 4. Fatal attachments ; 5. The story continues ; 6. A very late conclusion).
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