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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shaw, George Bernard
Shaw, George Bernard
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Life And Career Of George Bernard Shaw:
The life of George Bernard Shaw spanned nearly a century. It is important
to note that he was born in 1856, before the American Civil War, and died in
1950, after the outbreak of the Korean War: a period which witnessed many
important changes in civilization. In his years as a writer, Shaw was an
active observer of these changes, especially of the emergence of the
unsettling twentieth century out of the already complex nineteenth. Moreover,
Shaw was a commentator on every aspect of the challenge the new ...
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