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Man and Superman

by George Bernard Shaw

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Members' Rating: 3.80from 5 Ratings

Tags: Classics, Comedy

ISBN:1417930950

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This play has got it all: important themes, biting sarcasm, and Shavian wit. Plus, Don Juan in Hell, conversing with a perfectly pleasant Satan (no, really).


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About the Author

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born into a modest Dublin family. As a child, Shaw struggled throughout his schooling, resisting the rigid structure and rules that he felt were unnecessarily imposed by strict educational institutions. After leaving school in his teenage years, Shaw worked as a clerk, not sure of the direction his life would take. His parents, however, separated around this time and Shaw left his father’s home in Dublin in order to join his mother and sisters in London and try his hand at writing. London offered Shaw the kind of freedom and opportunities that he needed in order to develop. He was able to spend time reading and perfecting his literary craft in libraries around the city. He joined like-minded peers in the Fabian Society, a well-known London group of progressive political thinkers. In the 1890s, Shaw saw his first successes on the London stage, and went on to produce dozens of plays, novels, and works in prose, including Pygmalion, St. Joan, and Cashel Byron’s Profession. Shaw is perhaps best known for his play Pygmalion, which was adapted into the musical “My Fair Lady,” enjoying long-lived success on the stage and screen.

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Opening Lines (Experimental)

Roebuck Ramsden is in his study, opening the morning letters. The study, handsomely and solidly furnished, proclaims the man of means. Not a speck of dust is visible: it is clear that there are at least two housemaids and a parlormaid downstairs, and a housekeeper upstairs who does not let them ...

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daliwarn 4.00   2010-06-15
dmbrady 2.00   2010-01-01
dshirin 3.00   2009-06-25
gurjeet 5.00   2010-03-21
pam100 5.00   2010-03-21

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