Back to methuselah a metabiological Pentateuch
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
Back to methuselah a metabiological Pentateuch - London Penguin 1965 - 314 p.
Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, of Protestant stock, in 1856, and died at Aot St Lawrence, Herts, in 1950. After a false star in ninetenth-century fashion as a novelist, he made a reputation as a journalist-critic of books, pictures. music, and the drama Meanwhile he had plunged into the Socialist revival of the eighteen-eighties and come out as one of the leaders who made the Fabian Society famous, figuring prominently not only as a pamphleteer and plattorm orater, but as a serious economist and philosopher, publishing major essays on Ibsen and Wagner. He broke out in a new direction in 1892 as a playright, although it was not until some twelve years later that the opposition he had always to face at first was overcome sufficiently to establish him as an irresistible force in the theatre.
AUTORES IRLANDESES
INGLÉS
TEATRO
H 821-2=111 S26b 1965
Back to methuselah a metabiological Pentateuch - London Penguin 1965 - 314 p.
Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, of Protestant stock, in 1856, and died at Aot St Lawrence, Herts, in 1950. After a false star in ninetenth-century fashion as a novelist, he made a reputation as a journalist-critic of books, pictures. music, and the drama Meanwhile he had plunged into the Socialist revival of the eighteen-eighties and come out as one of the leaders who made the Fabian Society famous, figuring prominently not only as a pamphleteer and plattorm orater, but as a serious economist and philosopher, publishing major essays on Ibsen and Wagner. He broke out in a new direction in 1892 as a playright, although it was not until some twelve years later that the opposition he had always to face at first was overcome sufficiently to establish him as an irresistible force in the theatre.
AUTORES IRLANDESES
INGLÉS
TEATRO
H 821-2=111 S26b 1965