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An Unsocial Socialist (A Political Satire) - Complete Edition, Paperback / softback Book

An Unsocial Socialist (A Political Satire) - Complete Edition Paperback / softback

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An Unsocial Socialist, Shaw's last written novel was published in 1887, having been written in 1883.

The tale begins with a humorous description of student antics at a girl's school then changes focus to a seemingly uncouth labourer who, it soon develops, is really a wealthy gentleman in hiding from his overly affectionate wife.

Tinged with self-satirical overtones this novel shows both the positive and negative aspects of Socialism in a comically paradoxical manner.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer and wrote more than 60 plays.

He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938).

Excerpt: "I am expected to be something more than mortal.

Everyone else is encouraged to complain, and to be weak and silly.

But I must have no feeling. I must be always in the right. Everyone else may be homesick, or huffed, or in low spirits.

I must have no nerves, and must keep others laughing all day long." Table of Contents: Biography: George Bernard Shaw by G.

K. Chesterton An Unsocial Socialist

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