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George Bernard Shaw

Born

in Dublin, Ireland

July 26, 1856

Died

November 02, 1950

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Theater

Influences

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George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, socialist, and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama. Over the course of his life he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his plays address prevailing social problems, but each also includes a vein of comedy that makes their stark themes more palatable. In these works Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.

An ardent socialist, Shaw was angered by what he perceived to be the exploitation of the working class. He wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Societ ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 198,255 ratings · 7,635 reviews · 1,588 distinct works • Similar authors

	Pygmalion 3.89 avg rating — 103,448 ratings — published 1913 — 2213 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pygmalion and Three Other Plays by George Bernard Shaw, John A. Bertolini (Introduction) 4.03 avg rating — 18,126 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pygmalion / My Fair Lady by George Bernard Shaw, Alan Jay Lerner 4.26 avg rating — 15,637 ratings — published 1956 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arms and the Man 3.84 avg rating — 10,623 ratings — published 1898	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint Joan 3.77 avg rating — 9,105 ratings — published 1923 — 582 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Major Barbara 3.66 avg rating — 7,136 ratings — published 1905 — 328 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mrs. Warren's Profession 3.67 avg rating — 6,198 ratings — published 1898 — 254 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw, Stanley Weintraub (Introduction), Dan H. Laurence (Editor) 3.85 avg rating — 4,413 ratings — published 1903 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Candida by George Bernard Shaw, Peter Gahan (Introduction) 3.65 avg rating — 2,647 ratings — published 1934 — 218 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw, David Hare (Introduction), Dan H. Laurence (Editor) 3.74 avg rating — 2,535 ratings — published 1919 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by George Bernard Shaw (?)

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life

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“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

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May 2016 New School Group Read

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 478 pages

29 votes, 13.7%

1903, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, 172 pages

26 votes, 12.3%

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 407 pages

26 votes, 12.3%

1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, 288 pages

22 votes, 10.4%

1996, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, 835 pages

20 votes, 9.5%

1914, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pages

18 votes, 8.5%

1913, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 134 pages

14 votes, 6.6%

1957, On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 296 pages

13 votes, 6.2%

1993, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, 448 pages

11 votes, 5.2%

1949, The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, 276 pages

10 votes, 4.7%

1922, Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, 356 pages

7 votes, 3.3%

1936, Mephisto by Klaus Mann, 272 pages

6 votes, 2.8%

1924, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 225 pages

4 votes, 1.9%

1933, Lost Horizon by James Hilton, 241 pages

3 votes, 1.4%

1989, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, 544 pages

2 votes, 0.9%

211 total votes

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