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George Bernard Shaw
Born into a Protestant family of declining social status in Catholic Dublin, Shaw left school to become a clerk at 15. At 23 he went to London to pursue a career as a writer. With his brilliant wit and capacity for hard work he became the most prominent dramatist of his age.Release
2002
Minutes
30
Grade Level
S,C
Format
DVD
Born into a Protestant family of declining social status in Catholic Dublin, Shaw left school to become a clerk at 15. At 23 he went to London to pursue a career as a writer. With his brilliant wit and capacity for hard work he became the most prominent dramatist of his age.
This film is part of a series. The series title and other films in this series are listed below.
Famous Authors - A 36 Part Series
- Bronte Sisters, The
- Charles Dickens
- D.H. Lawrence
- Daniel Defoe
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Emile Zola
- Ernest Hemingway
- Eugene O'Neill
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Eliot
- George Orwell
- Henry James
- Herman Melville
- James Joyce
- Jane Austen
- John Keats
- John Steinbeck
- Jonathan Swift
- Marcel Proust
- Mark Twain
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Robert Burns
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Samuel Johnson
- Sir Walter Scott
- Thomas Hardy
- Victor Hugo
- Virginia Woolf
- Voltaire
- W.B. Yeats
- Walt Whitman
- William Blake
- William Faulkner
- William Shakespeare
- William Wordsworth
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- Public Library: $110
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