Bernard Shaw: One Volume

Bernard Shaw: One Volume

by Michael Holroyd (Author)

Synopsis

Michael Holroyd has done a masterly job of editing his definitive multi-volume biography of Bernard Shaw and presenting a lively and succinct one-volume Life. Here is the essential GBS for the general reader, with its pace and verve, its comedy, drama and politics, it shows a provocative and paradoxical figure sympathetically and movingly portrayed.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 848
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 15 Dec 2011

ISBN 10: 1845951859
ISBN 13: 9781845951856
Book Overview: The definitive Shaw, now for the general reader.

Media Reviews
A consummately organised masterpiece * Evening Standard *
A flamboyant new landmark in modern English life-writing -- Richard Holmes
A masterly exercise in biographical magic -- John Osborne * Spectator *
This elegant volume is a conglomerate of four detailed volumes...and gives the quintessence of Shaw...it does justice to a great Irishman * Irish Independent *
When George Bernard Shaw rejoins the intellectual mainstream, Holroyd's loyal, illuminating labours will be there to salute him -- George Steiner * Observer *
Author Bio
Besides the biographies of Augustus John, Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey (which was filmed as Carrington), Michael Holroyd has written two volumes of memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic. He was president of the Royal Society of Literature from 2003 - 2008 and is the only non-fiction writer to have been awarded the British Literature Prize. He lives in London and Somerset with his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.