- English drama, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), Longevity, Drama
Five linked plays that expound Shaw's philosophy of creative evolution in an extended dramatic parable that progresses through time from the Garden of Edesn to AD 31,920. Cf Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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- Author
- George Bernard Shaw
- First published
- 1921
- Pages
- 300
- Publisher
- Constable 1949, Brentano's, Constable and Co.
- Editions
- 123
- Language
- urd, Japanese, pan, Hindi
- ISBN
- 9798639010651
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About George Bernard Shaw · 1856–1950
An Irish playwright.
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