
Cărți de George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first public success, Arms and the Man in 1894. Influenced by Henrik Ibsen, he sought to introduce a new realism into English-language drama, using his plays as vehicles to disseminate his political, social and religious ideas. By the early twentieth century his reputation as a dramatist was secured with a series of critical and popular successes that included Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma and Caesar and Cleopatra.
Shaw's expressed views were often contentious; he promoted eugenics and alphabet reform, and opposed vaccination and organised religion. He courted unpopularity by denouncing both sides in the First World War as equally culpable, and although not a republican, castigated British policy on Ireland in the postwar period. These stances had no lasting effect on his standing or productivity as a dramatist; the inter-war years saw a series of often ambitious plays, which achieved varying degrees of popular success. In 1938 he provided the screenplay for a filmed version of Pygmalion for which he received an Academy Award. His appetite for politics and controversy remained undiminished; by the late 1920s he had largely renounced Fabian Society gradualism and often wrote and spoke favourably of dictatorships of the right and left—he expressed admiration for both Mussolini and Stalin. In the final decade of his life he made fewer public statements, but continued to write prolifically until shortly before his death, aged ninety-four, having refused all state honours, including the Order of Merit in 1946.
Since Shaw's death scholarly and critical opinion about his works has varied, but he has regularly been rated among British dramatists as second only to Shakespeare; analysts recognise his extensive influence on generations of English-language playwrights. The word Shavian has entered the language as encapsulating Shaw's ideas and his means of expressing them.


Major Barbara

Arms and the Man, The Devil's Disciple, and Caesar and Cleopatra
Oxford World's Classics

Major Cultural Essays
Oxford World's Classics

Mrs Warren's Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell
Oxford World's Classics

The Apple Cart, Too True to Be Good, On the Rocks, and The Millionairess
Oxford World's Classics

Pygmalion: 1941 version with variants from the 1916 edition: Definitive 1941 version with footnotes indicating the textual variants
Alma Classics Evergreens

Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan
Oxford World's Classics

Playlets
Oxford World's Classics

Major Political Writings
Oxford World's Classics

LOVE AMONG THE ARTISTS

Cashel Byron`s Profession

An Unsocial Socialist

Pygmalion. Mit Materialien
Longman Literature

Pygmalion & Other Plays

George Bernard Shaw: Selected Plays and Prefaces

The Perfect Wagnerite: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

Ein Wagner-Brevier
Bibliothek Suhrkamp, nr. 337

Candida (Harris)

Mrs. Warren's Profession

Overruled

How He Lied to Her Husband

Major Barbara

Fanny's First Play

Misalliance

Man and Superman

Getting Married

John Bull's Other Island

Arms and the Man

Heartbreak House

Androcles and the Lion

The Philanderer

You Never Can Tell

Mrs Warren's Profession

Pygmalion
Akasha Classic

John Bulls Other Island

The Doctors Dilemma

Plays Pleasant

Bernard Shaw and Barry Jackson
Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw

Saint Joan

Plays Unpleasant

Die heilige Johanna
suhrkamp taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe, nr. 1861

Pygmalion
suhrkamp taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe, nr. 1859

Wit and Acid

Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara
Oxford World's Classics

Caesar and Cleopatra
Mint Editions (Plays)

Back to Methuselah

"My Dear Loraine"

My Dear Watson

Man and Superman; a Comedy and a Philosophy

Candida

The Devil's Disciple

The Doctor's Dilemma

The Perfect Wagnerite (Annotated)

Pymalion

Dark Lady of the Sonnets

The Man of Destiny

Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion (World Classics, Unabridged)

Pygmalion (Wisehouse Classics Edition)

Pygmalion.

George Bernard Shaw - An Unsocial Socialist: "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

The Complete Plays of George Bernard Shaw (1893-1921), 34 Complete and Unabridged Plays Including

The Miraculous Revenge (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Arms and the Man

Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion

The Doctor S Dilemma: Preface on Doctors

The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales

Saint Joan

Plays Unpleasant

Our Theatres in the Nineties - Vol. II

Fabian Essays in Socialism

Heartbreak House

Geneva

Plays and Players - Essays on the Theatre

An Unsocial Socialist

The Irrational Knot

The Sanity of Art

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

Pygmalion (Illustrated by May Wilson Preston)

Androcles and the Lion

Cashel Byron's Profession

George Bernard Shaw, Collection Novels

Pygmalion & Arms and the Man

A Treatise on Parents and Children

The Admirable Bashville

Heartbreak House (Annotated)

Mrs. Warren's Profession (Annotated)

Overruled (Annotated)

Press Cuttings

Helden

Great Catherine Whom Glory Still Adores

Man and Superman (Deseret Alphabet Edition)

Candida

Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress

Augustus Does His Bit
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