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Nueva York, Estados Unidos

Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, of Protestant stock, in 1856, and has lived in London and Hertfordshire since 1876.

After a false start in the XIX-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 platform orator, 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 playwright, although it was not until some twelve years that the opposition he had always to face at first was overcome sufficiently to establish him as an irresistible force in the theatre.

The present volume show him in all the phases of his varied career, and can be read for aesthetic entertainment, for up to-date liberal education, for philosophic and biological doctrine, even for pure fun, or for any or all of them, writer in plain English by a born master of that most enchanting of modern scriptures. Not to have read Shaw is to be behind the times as far as he has always been before them.