1946-7 Selected Works of George Bernard Shaw In Five Volumes

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In five volumes. The set consists of: Three Plays for Puritans, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant. The First Volume Containing Three Unpleasant Plays, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant. The Second Volume Containing the Four Pleasant Plays, Geneva, Cymbeline, and Good King Charles and The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. He was also an essayist, novelist and short story writer. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Issues which engaged Shaw's attention included education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.