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Book Synopsis Bernard Shaw and the Webbs by : Bernard Shaw
Download or read book Bernard Shaw and the Webbs written by Bernard Shaw and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 140 annotated letters, 74 of which have never been published, documents the subsequent friendship and collaboration shared by Shaw, Webb, and Webb's wife Beatrice, throughout their lives.
Book Synopsis The Webb's Masterpiece, By Bernard Shaw by : Bernard Shaw
Download or read book The Webb's Masterpiece, By Bernard Shaw written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Diaries of Beatrice Webb: All the Truth about Bernard Shaw by : Beatrice Webb
Download or read book The Diaries of Beatrice Webb: All the Truth about Bernard Shaw written by Beatrice Webb and published by neobooks. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains all known so far 151 aphoristic entries in the diaries of Beatrice Webb about her lifelong friend, Nobel laureate and Oscar winner Bernard Shaw written between 1893 and 1943 and edited by a leading contemporary Shavian Vitaly Baziyan. Beatrice Webb's keenest observations about the greatest Irish dramatist Bernard Shaw represent an important source for the study of British cultural, social and political history. They help to get a clearer picture of world-renowned playwright as well as other celebrities of his time. Here are some aphorisms from Beatrice Webb about Bernard Shaw: 'He imagines that he gets to know women by making them in love with him. Just the contrary. His stupid gallantries bar out from him the friendship of women who are either too sensible, too puritanical or too much 'otherwise engaged' to care to bandy personal flatteries with him. He idealizes them for a few days, weeks or years, imagines them to be something utterly different from their true selves, then has a revulsion of feeling and discovers them to be unutterably vulgar, second-rate, rapscallion, or insipidly well-bred. He never fathoms their real worth, nor rightly sees their limitations.' 'One is so accustomed to GBS's vanity and egotism. One used to watch these faults leading to all sorts of rather cruel philanderings with all kinds of odd females.' 'His sensuality has all drifted into sexual vanity, delight in being the candle to the moths, with a dash of intellectual curiosity to give flavour to his tickled vanity. And he is mistaken if he thinks that it does not affect his artistic work. His incompleteness as a thinker, his shallow and vulgar view of many human relationships, the lack of the sterner kind of humour which would show him the dreariness of his farce and the total absence of proportion and inadequateness in some of his ideas, all these defects come largely from the flippant and worthless self-complacency brought about by the worship of rather second-rate women. For all that, he is a good-natured agreeable sprite of a man, an intellectual cricket on the hearth always chirping away brilliant paradox, sharp-witted observation and friendly comments. Whether I like him, admire him or despise him most I do not know. Just at present I feel annoyed and contemptuous.' 'He is self-complacent—feels himself one of the world geniuses and is mortified by the refusal of his generation to take him seriously as a thinker and reformer.' 'G.B.S.'s dogmatic conclusion is that Socialism consists of two ends; equalisation of incomes and compulsory labour.' 'He has the illusion that he is and must be right, because he has genius and his critics are just ordinary men.' 'He is a delightful companion for an outing, always amusing and good-tempered, sufficiently exasperating in argument to avoid tameness in companionship—the curse of the comradeship of the old. He is a delightful raconteur—a perfect gossip, elaborating by witty exaggerations the life-stories of his friends into human comedies, and sometimes into inhuman tragedies.' 'GBS complains of hordes of journalists who dogged his steps as false publicity. "The great majority of those who crowd to see me have not read a word I've written, and those who have don't understand, or disagree with my message to mankind." All the same, he enjoys it and rides triumphant over the mob of pressmen, attracted by the force, not of his message, but of his bewitching personality, the world-wide glamour of it.'
Book Synopsis The Diaries of Beatrice Webb by : Beatrice Webb
Download or read book The Diaries of Beatrice Webb written by Beatrice Webb and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains all known so far 151 aphoristic entries in the diaries of Beatrice Webb about her lifelong friend Bernard Shaw written between 1893 and 1943 and edited by a leading contemporary Shavian Vitaly Baziyan. On 12 February 1943 Beatrice Webb wrote in her diary: "Kingsley Martin [Editor of the New Statesman] and Raymond Mortimer here for tea and talk. He and Kingsley Martin wanted me to contribute extracts from my diary about Bernard Shaw. I told them that would be undesirable. Our relations with GBS had been those of warm friendship and courteous co-operation, but nearly all the entries in the diaries were about our brilliant friend's troublesome antics, his queer dealing with current events and contemporary personalities, and were, in a sense, mainly critical. Sidney [Webb] and he had co-operated and he had always been most generous in his appreciation of our work. He was a great dramatist, but whimsical in his dealings with other men. I preferred to abstain from any quotation from the diaries until both the Shaws and the Webbs were no longer living personalities. . . ." This time has now come. Beatrice Webb's keenest observations about the greatest dramatist Bernard Shaw are available for readers and represent an important source for the study of British cultural, social and political history. They help to get a clearer picture of world-renowned Irish playwright and Nobel laureate who was subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as well as other celebrities of her time. Here are some aphorisms from Beatrice Webb: 'Bernard Shaw is a perfect 'house friend'-self-sufficient, witty and tolerant, going his own way and yet adapting himself to your ways. If only he would concentrate his really brilliant intellect on some consecutive thought.' 'Persons with no sense of humour regard him as a combined Don Juan and a professional blasphemer of the existing order. An artist to the tips of his fingers and an admirable craftsman. Above all a brilliant talker, and, therefore, a delightful companion. Some people would call him a cynic-he is really an Idealist of the purest water. He has also a clientele among the cynical journalists and men of the world. Shaw lives in a drama or comedy of which he himself is the hero-his amour propre is satisfied by the jealousy and restless devotion of half a dozen women, all cordially hating each other.' 'What a comfort to be a fanatic. It is Bernard Shaw's fanaticism to turn everything inside out and see whether the other side won't do just as well if not better; it is this fanaticism which gives him genuine charm. He has a sort of affectionateness too, underneath his vanity.' 'Everything he explains or proposes, in practical detail, is just the old Fabian stuff-measures which certainly have no necessary connection with his dogma of Equality of Income and Compulsory Labour-the income and the work to be wholly unconnected with each other. This strange dogma is nowhere justified.' 'GBS has had in his later years an immensely successful career alike in prestige and riches; he has been adored and flattered by the smart set of intellectuals at home and by more substantial minds abroad. In his old age few and far between have been his outspoken detractors. But he is not satisfied with his reputation as an artist. He hungers after acceptance as a great thinker and social reconstructor. Which he is not, never has been, and never could be. But why should he expect to be a superman in social reconstruction? He does not claim to be a mathematician.' 'What a transformation scene from those first years I knew him: the scathing bitter opponent of wealth and leisure, and now! the adored one of the smartest and most cynical set of English Society.' 'GBS is gambling with ideas and emotions in a way that distresses slow-minded prigs like Sidney and I, and hurts those with any fastidiousness.'
Book Synopsis The Webbs and Their Work by : Margaret I. Cole
Download or read book The Webbs and Their Work written by Margaret I. Cole and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on Sidney and Beatrice Webb, their work, and their influence in the modern world by writers who can write about what the Webbs were like when they knew them, what they were trying to accomplish, and whether they succeeded or failed.
Book Synopsis Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on Poverty and Equality in the Modern World, 1905–1914 by : Peter Gahan
Download or read book Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on Poverty and Equality in the Modern World, 1905–1914 written by Peter Gahan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb’s ground-breaking pre-World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality, redistribution and democracy in a developed economy. The ten years following his great 1905 play on poverty Major Barbara present a puzzle to Shaw scholars, who have hitherto failed to appreciate both the centrality of the idea of equality in major plays like Getting Married, Misalliance, and Pygmalion, and to understand that his major political work, 1928’s The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism had its roots in this period before the Great War. As both the era’s leading dramatist and leader of the Fabian Society, Shaw proposed his radical postulate of equal incomes as a solution to those twin scourges of a modern industrial society: poverty and inequality. Set against the backdrop of Beatrice Webb’s famous Minority Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law 1905-1909 – a publication which led to grass-roots campaigns against destitution and eventually the Welfare State – this book considers how Shaw worked with Fabian colleagues, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and H. G. Wells to explore through a series of major lectures, prefaces and plays, the social, economic, political, and even religious implications of human equality as the basis for modern democracy.
Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by Eric Bentley and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Bentley's graceful look at George Bernard Shaw was first published over 50 years ago, and time has only strengthened the conviction of his ideas and arguments about Shaw. When it arrived in the late 1940's, this book was hailed by the great poet William Carlos Williams as "the best treatise on contemporary manners I think I have ever read. I was fascinated and rewarded in the depths of my soul." Even Shaw himself described the book as "the best critical description of my public activities I have yet come across."
Book Synopsis Socialism for Millionaires by : George Bernard Shaw
Download or read book Socialism for Millionaires written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fabian Tract No. 107. Originally From The Contemporary Review, February, 1896.
Book Synopsis Bernard Shaw and His Publishers by : Bernard Shaw
Download or read book Bernard Shaw and His Publishers written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Bernard Shaw and His Publishers by : Bernard Shaw
Download or read book Bernard Shaw and His Publishers written by Bernard Shaw and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich selection of Shaw's correspondence with his US and UK publishers proves how much the dramatist lived up to his own words by providing the details of his steady involvement in the publication of his works.
Book Synopsis The Consumers' Co-operative Movement by : Sidney Webb
Download or read book The Consumers' Co-operative Movement written by Sidney Webb and published by London ; New York : Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1921 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fabian Essays written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews: 1884-1950 by : Bernard Shaw
Download or read book Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews: 1884-1950 written by Bernard Shaw and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume of Bernard Shaw's book reviews is a companion to Brian Tyson's previously edited collection of Shaw's earlier book reviews. Here Tyson collects seventy-three of the best remaining literary book reviews written by Shaw throughout his lifetime. Two-thirds of the reviews appear in book form for the first time, the originals residing in the archives of newspaper libraries, and only three of the remainder have been reprinted within the last twenty years. Politics feature largely in the works that Shaw reviewed: there are books of socialist theory and its practical appearance in the Soviet Union, as well as books on the individualism of J. H. Levy, the anti-socialism of Thomas McKay, and the economics of E. C. K. Gonner and Philip Wicksteed. There is often an immediacy about the books reviewed, too: discussion of books on World War I, the Soviet Revolution, women's suffrage, the British General Strike of 1926, and World War II all take place concurrently with the events. Many of the works reviewed are biographies, which give Shaw the opportunity to reveal his personal acquaintance with their subjects, including Samuel Butler, William Morris, and Dean Inge. This widely varied collection sparkles with wit and wisdom, taking us briskly through Shaw's own writing life, beginning when he was relatively unknown and concluding when he was a legend.
Book Synopsis A Bernard Shaw Chronology by : A. Gibbs
Download or read book A Bernard Shaw Chronology written by A. Gibbs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-02-14 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.M. Gibbs provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the life, career and associations of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), one of the most eminent and influential literary figures of the modern age. Drawing on a wide range of published and unpublished material, this work illuminates the complex fabric of Shaw's extraordinary career as playwright, novelist, critic, orator, political activist, social commentator, avant-garde thinker and controversialist. Images of Shaw's daily private life, and of his tangled love affairs, flirtations and friendships, are intertwined with the records of his prodigiously productive career as public figure and creative writer, in a fully documented study which is both a scholarly resource and a lively biographical portrait. An introductory chapter explores theoretical issues in biography raised by the chronology form; and a chapter on Shaw's ancestry and family supplies new evidence about his Irish background. A Who's Who section contains thumbnail sketches of over two hundred contemporaries of Shaw who had significant associations with him.
Book Synopsis Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of George Bernard Shaw by : Gareth Griffith
Download or read book Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of George Bernard Shaw written by Gareth Griffith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in paperback for the first time, Gareth Griffith's book provides a comprehensive critical account of the political ideas of one of the most influential commentators of the twentieth century. With close reference to a range of Shaw's texts, from the Fabian tracts to the plays, Gareth Griffith draws out the central theoretical messages of Shaw's engagement with politics. The first part of the book provides an intellectual biography, while at the same time analysing Shaw's key concerns in relation to his Fabianism, arguments for equality of income and ideas on democracy and education. Part Two looks at those areas which Shaw approached as long-standing historical problems or dramas requiring immediate thought or action; sexual equality, the Irish question, war, fascism and sovietism. The book is directed to the general reader as well as to specialists. It will be central reading for anyone seeking to understand Shaw's life, and literary and political writings, or the development of political thinking in this century, or the problems and potential inherent in socialism.
Book Synopsis The Webbs, Fabianism and Feminism by : Peter Beilharz
Download or read book The Webbs, Fabianism and Feminism written by Peter Beilharz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to explore the understanding of Fabianism of both the Webbs and the Fabian Women’s Group and how this understanding shaped their views regarding such gender-centred issues as the family wage; protective labour law; and women’s place in the welfare state, the home and the labour market.
