Short novel e-books (2h to read) of Bernard Shaw

BERNARD SHAW 1912 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: In the printed version of this text, all apostrophes for contractions such as "can't", "wouldn't" and "he'd" were omitted, to read as "cant", "wouldnt", and ...

INTRODUCTION To the irreverent--and which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification?--there is something very amusing in the attitude of the orthodox criticism toward ...

1894 With The Author's Apology (1902) THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY Mrs Warren's Profession has been performed at last, after a delay of only eight years; and I have once more shared with Ibsen the ...

BERNARD SHAW ACT I It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent.

ACT I An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great ra...

1906 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The edition from which this play was taken was printed with no contractions, thus "we've" is written as "weve", "hadn't" as "hadnt", etc.

BERNARD SHAW 1898 ACT I A fine October morning in the north east suburbs of London, a vast district many miles away from the London of Mayfair and St. James's, much less known there than the P...

_Johnny Tarleton, an ordinary young business man of thirty or less, is taking his weekly Friday to Tuesday in the house of his father, John Tarleton, who has made a great deal of money out of Tarle...

ACT I A lady and gentleman are making love to one another in the drawing-room of a flat in Ashly Gardens in the Victoria district of London.

ACT I Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers.

ACT I In a dentist's operating room on a fine August morning in 1896.

Bernard Shaw ACT I At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room...

1912 CONTENTS: Why not give Christianity a Trial?

INDUCTION _The end of a saloon in an old-fashioned country house (Florence Towers, the property of Count O'Dowda) has been curtained off to form a stage for a private theatrical performance.

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1909 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The edition from which this work was taken was printed without contractions, so there is Ill for I'll and dont for don't, for example, and show is spelt shew.

1909 It is not the fault of our doctors that the medical service of the community, as at present provided for, is a murderous absurdity.