Author:George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

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George Bernard Shaw

Works

Novels

• Cashel Byron's Profession (London, The Modern Press, 1886), written in 1882.
• An Unsocial Socialist (London, Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1887), written in 1883.
• Love Among the Artists (Chicago, Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1900, UK, 1914), written in 1881.
• The Irrational Knot (New York, Brentano’s, 1905), written in 1880.
• Immaturity (London, Constable, 1931) His first novel; written in 1879,

Plays

• Plays Unpleasant:
  • Widowers' Houses (1892)
  • The Philanderer (1898)
  • Mrs. Warren's Profession (1898)
• Plays Pleasant:
  • The Man of Destiny (1897)
  • Arms and the Man (1894)
  • Candida (1898)
  • You Never Can Tell (1897)
• Three Plays for Puritans:
  • The Devil's Disciple (1897)
  • Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1900)
  • Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)
• The Admirable Bashville (1901)
• Man and Superman (1903)
• John Bull's Other Island (1904)
• How He Lied to Her Husband (1904)
• Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction (1905)
• Major Barbara (1905)[1]
• The Doctor’s Dilemma (1906)
• The Interlude at the Playhouse (1907)
• Getting Married (1908)
• The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet (1909)
• Press Cuttings (1909)
• Misalliance (1910)
• Dark Lady of the Sonnets (1910)
• Fanny's First Play (1911)
• Overruled (1912)
• Androcles and the Lion (1912)
• Preface to Androcles and the Lion (1905)
• Great Catherine (1913)
• Pygmalion (1913)
• The Music Cure (1913)
• O'Flaherty V.C. (1915)
• The Inca of Perusalem (1916)
• Augustus Does His Bit (1916)
• Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress (1917)
• Heartbreak House (1919)
• Back to Methuselah (1921)
  • Preface
  • In the Beginning
  • The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
  • The Thing Happens
  • Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman
  • As Far as Thought Can Reach
• Saint Joan (1923)
• The Apple Cart (1929)
• Geneva (1938)

Correspondence

• Letter to Beatrice Webb, 6 June 1898

Other

• Commonsense about the War
• The Black Girl in Search of God
• The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
• The New Theology
• Memories of Oscar Wilde, 1916. Printed as an appendix to Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions

Works about Shaw

• George Bernard Shaw by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• "Lines to G. B. Shaw" by Robert E. Howard
• “Shaw, George Bernard,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Shaw, George Bernard” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

Works on Wikilivres

George Bernard Shaw (public domain in Canada)

• The Glimpse of Reality (1909, published in 1926) Renewal R125602
• Saint Joan (1923, published in 1924) Renewal R83402
• The Fascinating Foundling (1926)
• Do We Agree? A debate between G. B. Shaw and G. K. Chesterton (1928)
• The Apple Cart (1929)
• How These Doctors Love One Another! (1931)
• The Black Girl in Search of God (1932)
• Too True to Be Good (1932)
• Village Wooing (1933)
• On the Rocks (1933)
• The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (1934)
• The Six of Calais (1934)
• Arthur and the Acetone (1936)
• The Millionairess (1936)
• Cymbeline Refinished (1937)
• Geneva (1938)
• Buoyant Billions (1948)
• Shakes versus Shav (1949)
• Farfetched Fables (1948-1950)
• Why She Would Not (1950)

Sources

• Online Literature has many works, including full texts of Cashel Byron's Profession, An Unsocial Socialist, and The Irrational Knot.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1950, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.