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This reprint of Bernard Wood's best-selling 2-volume encyclopedia is now available as a single-volume paperback. It is ideal for grad students and ...

With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear 'Remarkably lively and enjoyable…It is a very rich book, containing excellent descriptions of a variety of mor...

Arms and the man, one of Shaw’s most glittering comedies, was first produced on 21st April, 1894 at the avenue theatre and published in 1898 as par...

Shaw’s Candida: A Critical Introduction presents a detailed study as well as a critical analysis on Candida and its different aspects. A brief disc...

Monetary policy is still one of the most contested areas of modern economics, and since the original publication of Policy Makers on Policy much ha...

Major Barbara, a social satire in three acts, written in 1905 and published in 1907, is the most controversial of Shaw's works which mocks religiou...

There is no denying the fact that when Bin Laden speaks, the people across the world, particularly the Western media, usually ask—Is he really aliv...

Man and Superman, a four-Act drama, was written in 1903 as a response to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written a play based ...

The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza, a wry political satire, was completed in December 1928 and first performed in Warsaw (in Polish) in June ...

George Bernard Shaw, (26th July, 1856, Dublin, Ireland—2nd November, 1950, Hertfordshire, England), was an Irish playwright, author, literary criti...

Candida, a classic comedy, was written in 1894. Set in London's East End during the Victorian era, the play is about the domestic turmoil that ensu...

The Critic in the Modern World explores the work of six influential literary critics-Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, L...

The second edition of this distinguished and popular Companion introduces new chapters on the philosophy of biology: bioethics, genethics, and medi...

Since the most devastating attack on September 11, 2001, when 19 Al Qaeda operatives hijacked four passenger planes and drove two into the Twin Tow...

A great dramatist, a literary critic, an eminent showman, an intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre personality of ...

Modi aims to steer India towards a prosperous and inclusive future. Narendra Modi: A Global Transformative Leader thoroughly analyses Narendra Mod...

On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills, the 'bureaucratic ethos' that he described conti...

G.B. Shaw is a literary Mohican who bestrode modern thought like a Colossus, but he was not a historian in a popular sense. He wrote many plays on ...

The biggest story of Bengal in post-Independence India is the overthrow of the 34-year-long Marxist regime in May 2011. The collapse of Marxist rul...

The waves by Virginia Woolf the waves is Virginia Woolf’s most audacious exploration of the possibilities of the novel form. Instead of narrating h...

First published in 1923, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization is considered the most ambitious of Bertrand Russell's works on modern society. I...

This book helps to explore and discover the emergence and remarkable acceptance of George Bernard Shaw in the world of drama with special emphasis ...

A great dramatist, literary critic, an eminent showman, intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre personality of the 2...