Bernard Shaw, 1950-1991 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Holroyd
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1950-1991
- Setting: Mostly England, occasionally the United States
- Principal Characters: George Bernard Shaw, Charlotte Shaw, Barbara Smoker, Futz Loewenstein
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Language or languages, Literature, Linguistics or linguists, England or English people, Death or dying, Wills, Drama or dramatists, Comedy
- Locales: United States, England
In three previous volumes, Michael Holroyd chronicled and analyzed in fluent, lucid, and often witty language the career of one of the most productive, elusive, and long-lived writers in the history of literature. The first book, subtitled The Search for Love (1988), took George Bernard Shaw from his 1856 birth to 1898; the second, The Pursuit of Power (1989), to 1918; the third, The Lure of Fantasy (1991), to his death in 1950. This fourth tome is a pendant tracing the posthumous career of the considerable Shavian fortune and offering an often humorous...
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