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Bernard Shaw, vol. 2, The Pursuit of Power: 1898-1918.

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19891007
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BERNARD SHAW: THE PURSUIT OF POWER 1898-1918.

By Michael Holroyd.

IN THE first volume of his enormous biography, Michael Holroyd took George Bernard Shaw from his Dublin cradle to London. There, building on a family inheritance of eccentricity, Shaw became a literary figure noted more for what he did and said than for what he wrote. Mr Holroyd's second volume sees him set in a conveniently symbiotic marriage, barely obtruding on other liaisons, while he becomes pre-eminent as a playwright and political theorist.

Shaw was all brain. ...

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