George Bernard Shaw created pioneering dramas that probed prevailing social problems with a vein of comedy that made their stark themes more palatable, while striving to make the world aware of the exploitation of the working classes. For the first time in digital publishing, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete fictional works of George Bernard Shaw, with every play, novel and short story, as well as featuring numerous illustrations, many rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Shaw’s life and works

* Concise introductions to the novels, plays and other texts

* ALL 72 plays, with individual contents tables

* Includes many rare dramas, available in no other collection

* All 5 novels, with individual contents tables

* Includes IMMATURITY, Shaw’s first novel, appearing here for the first time in digital publishing

* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Shaw’s scarce story collection SHORT STORIES, SCRAPS AND SHAVINGS, featuring the controversial tale ‘Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God’

* Includes almost the complete non-fiction, including Shaw’s seminal work on Ibsen

* Special criticism study on Shaw by G. K. Chesterton, evaluating Shaw’s contribution to literature

* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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CONTENTS:

The Novels

IMMATURITY

THE IRRATIONAL KNOT

LOVE AMONG THE ARTISTS

CASHEL BYRON’S PROFESSION

AN UNSOCIAL SOCIALIST

The Short Stories

SHORT STORIES, SCRAPS AND SHAVINGS

The Plays

PASSION PLAY

UN PETIT DRAME

THE CASSONE

WIDOWERS’ HOUSES

THE PHILANDERER

MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION

ARMS AND THE MAN

CANDIDA

THE MAN OF DESTINY

YOU NEVER CAN TELL

THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE

THE GADFLY

CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA

CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND’S CONVERSION

THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE, OR CONSTANCY UNREWARDED

MAN AND SUPERMAN

JOHN BULL’S OTHER ISLAND

HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND

MAJOR BARBARA

PASSION, POISON, AND PETRIFACTION

THE DOCTOR’S DILEMMA

THE INTERLUDE AT THE PLAYHOUSE

GETTING MARRIED

THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET

PRESS CUTTINGS

FASCINATING FOUNDLING: DISGRACE TO THE AUTHOR

THE GLIMPSE OF REALITY

SUGGESTED ACT III ENDING FOR BARKER’S ‘THE MADRAS HOUSE’

MISALLIANCE

THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS

FANNY’S FIRST PLAY

ANDROCLES AND THE LION

OVERRULED: A DEMONSTRATION

BEAUTY’S DUTY

PYGMALION

GREAT CATHERINE

THE MUSIC CURE

O’FLAHERTY, V. C.

THE INCA OF PERUSALEM

AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT

GLASTONBURY SKIT

MACBETH SKIT

SKIT FOR THE TIPTAFT REVUE

ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS

HEARTBREAK HOUSE

BACK TO METHUSELAH: A METABIOLOGICAL PENTATEUCH

THE WAR INDEMNITIES

JITTA’S ATONEMENT

SAINT JOAN

THE YAHOOS

THE APPLE CART

TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD

VILLAGE WOOING

ON THE ROCKS

THE GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES

THE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN VOICE

THE SIMPLETON OF THE UNEXPECTED ISLES

THE SIX OF CALAIS

THE MILLIONAIRESS

ARTHUR AND THE ACETONE

SEQUENCE FOR THE KING’S PEOPLE

CYMBELINE REFINISHED

GENEVA

IN GOOD KING CHARLES’S GOLDEN DAYS

A NEW ENDING FOR CLEMENCE DANE’S ‘COUSIN MURIEL’

THE BRITISH PARTY SYSTEM

SEQUENCE FOR A PAGEANT OF PLAYS AND PLAYERS

BUOYANT BILLIONS

FARFETCHED FABLES

SHAKES VERSUS SHAV

WHY SHE WOULD NOT

JESUS-PILATE SCENE

The Non-Fiction

THE PERFECT WAGNERITE

QUINTESSENCE OF IBSENISM

THE IMPOSSIBILITIES OF ANARCHISM

THE REVOLUTIONIST’S HANDBOOK AND POCKET COMPANION

MAXIMS FOR REVOLUTIONISTS

HOW THESE DOCTORS LOVE ONE ANOTHER!

LETTER TO FRANK HARRIS, 1930

LETTER ON SHAKESPEARE BY MR. G. BERNARD SHAW

The Criticism

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW by G. K. Chesterton

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