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 2)

* 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


* Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres


* UPDATED with two late non-fiction works

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


Pen Portraits and Reviews


The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home

The Criticism


George Bernard Shaw by G. K. Chesterton

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