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Bernard Shaw, vol. 1, 1856-1898: The Search for Love.

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From: The Nation
Date: 19881205
Author:Langer, Elinor

BERNARD SHAW, Volume I, 18561898: The Search for Love. By Michael Holroyd. Random House. 486pp. $24.95.

In his preface to Misalliance, George Bernard Shaw remarked that "a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not

matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive of it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses , or as still growing, yearning, ...

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