Bernard Shaw: The One-volume Definitive Edition
- ISBN-10
- 0393327183
- ISBN-13
- 9780393327182
- Series
- Bernard Shaw
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 833
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-11
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Author
- Michael Holroyd
Description
In a single-volume format, Michael Holroyd's masterpiece of a biography offers new verve and pace; Shaw's world is more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship.
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