The Complete Prefaces: Volume 1: 1889-1913 - Hardcover

Shaw, George Bernard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713990562 ISBN 13: 9780713990560

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Shaw, George Bernard

About this title

From Library Journal:

When complete, this three-volume edition-to-be will accumulate in chronological order all 115 of Shaw's prefaces (several unpublished) for the first time. The uninitiated should realize that Shaw's prefaces are anything but dry; they are subject to the same brilliant eclecticism that characterizes his letters (available in the superb Collected Letters , which Laurence also edited). Many of the prefaces are longer than the works they precede and may take in literary, social, political, and economic concerns. Footnotes help with obscure references and apparent anachronisms caused by Shaw's chronic tinkering with and revisions of these texts, sometimes many years later. Always thought-provoking, Shaw can still prove stimulating to today's reader, but because of this set's anticipated cost and the wide availability of many of the prefaces elsewhere, this is recommended mainly for research libraries.
- Robert E. Brown, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0713990562
• ISBN 13: 9780713990560
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 672
• Editor: Laurence Dan H., Leary Daniel J.