Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality by Hesketh Pearson, 1948, published by The Reprint Society, Vintage Hardback Biography

Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality by Hesketh Pearson, 1948, published by The Reprint Society, London. Hardback, 448 pages

This vintage biography is in fairly good condition - the covers' edges and spine have some staining possibly from water damage - it doesn't affect the book itself.
Inside the blurb from the dust-jacket has been stuck on the inside front cover and front flysheet.
There are a couple of tiny dog-ears.
Otherwise there is no writing, tearing or creasing.

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Blurb reads:
This book is unique among other books on the same subject because Shaw himself has given every possible help to his biographer. He has allowed him to quote whatever he wished from published and unpublished correspondence. He has answered every question put to him either verbally or by letter, and has willingly given a tremendous amount of hitherto unavailable information about his own life.
Whenever possible the biographer has narrated what Shaw has told him of his life and times in his own vivid phrases, thus making the book authoritative. On every doubtful point Shaw has been consulted, and the reader may feel confident that all the facts have been checked by the only living person who is in a position to do so.
Shaw's great career as unfolded in this book is a vivid historical panorama of the intellectual life of the last sixty years. Shaw's was the brilliant mind which in his plays and prefaces, his fiery public speeches and countless articles and pamphlets, awakened our social conscience, removed age-long injustices and paved the way for so many of the reforms that are now the commonplace of our present liberties. Nearly everything that has previously been written about Shaw is either critical or expository, but Hesketh Pearson has concentrated on the personality, not of the socialist or playwright, but of the man himself.


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