Author: Laurence, Dan H., edited by,
Title: Bernard Shaw: collected letters 1898-1910 (volume 2).
Description: NY, Dodd Mead, (1972). VG in G DJ. The richester and most complex part of Shaw's life beginning with 1898 when he retired from journalism, the successful. publication of his earliest plays, and his marriage to the green-eyed Irish milliionairess Charlotte Payne-Townshend, his emergence as the most controversial literary figure of his day and Britain's most significant playwright since Sheakespeare. Shaw's participation in the critical Fabian controversy over the Boer War; the legal battle in America over Mrs. Warren's Profession, and the censorship clash in London and Dublin over The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet; the piquant reports from Athens and Constantinople, N. Africa, France, and Germany. The whole spectrum of Shavian interests of women's suffrage, flagellation, photography, the care of pets, copyright, burial procedures at Queen Victoria's funearl, capital punishment, sanitary arrangements in the Borough of St. Pancras, and his sister Lucy's divorce. DJ edge wear.

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