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People known to Bernard Shaw had every reason to fear becoming recognisable characters in his plays. However, as eminent Shaw scholar Stanley Weintraub reveals in this collection, Shaw's relationships to real or imagined personalities could be both curiously unexpected and deliciously complex.
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"Bernard Shaw was twenty-four and Sidney Webb twenty-one when they met in October 1880 at a gathering of a debating club called the Zetetical Society. Having sympathetic interests, both men decided, after some personal and joint exploration, to devote their lives to improving the human condition. This collection of 140 annotated letters, 74 of which have never before been published, documents the subsequent friendship and collaboration shared by Shaw,...
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"What is astonishing about Bernard shaw is not that he wrote so many letters, but that he found the time and energy to produce any at all. Yet Shaw the playwright and director, reviewer and critic, essayist and lecturer, vestryman and borough councillor, managed to write many thousands of letters. Moreover, they are often as scintillating and provoking as his plays, even though most were written for a readership of one. The Times, however, presents...
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