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Bernard Shaw, vol. 1: The Search for Love.

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19880917
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BERNARD SHAW. Vol 1: THE SEARCH FOR LOVE. By Michael Holroyd. Chatto & Windus; 486 pages; (British lbs)l6. Random House; $24.95 THE plays of George Bernard Shaw are seldom produced nowadays; his vast output of writing is hardly read. He is best remembered as an inexhaustible source of good lines. A bitter fate, perhaps, for a man who once wrote of his career: "England had conquered Ireland; so there was nothing for it but to come over and conquer England."

Shaw planned to become a Professional man of genius". In London, the profession took years to bear fruit. Where he ...

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