The Intelligent Woman's Guide: To Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism - Couverture rigide

Shaw, Bernard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1847492436 ISBN 13 : 9781847492432

Editeur : Alma Classics, 2012

Synopsis

As a Fabian and lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of our lives. Family affections and relations between the sexes were perverted by it. From Parliament to eduction our institutions were "corrupted at the root by pecuniary interest". Idealism, integrity and piecemeal attempts at political reform were all futile in the face of the gross injustice built into our economic system. And because a capitalist economy could never function smoothly, private property was not merely a form of robbery, but robbery with violence.

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À propos de l'auteur

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright and critic, whose plays are famous for their wit, eloquence and interest in provocative ideas. Inspired mainly by the social dramas of Ibsen, he began to write plays of his own while working as an arts critic, though they were not performed until later. His play Mrs Warren's Profession was banned by the Lord Chamberlain until 1925. Unable to find commercial audiences for his plays, Shaw wrote extensive Prefaces for them, elaborating on the social and moral themes that they explore. Subsequent plays include Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, Back to Methuselah, and Saint Joan. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925, and an Academy Award in 1938, for the screenplay of the film adaptation of Pygmalion, a film which would later form the basis for My Fair Lady.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Alma Classics
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847492436
• ISBN 13: 9781847492432
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
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