Bernard Shaw by Michael Holroyd
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.
"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 *
"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 *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845951856 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845951859 |
| Title | Bernard Shaw |
| Author | Michael Holroyd |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-12-15 |
| Number of pages | 848 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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