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The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studiesby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0271003057 (0-271-00305-7)
Hardcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Beardsleyby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0140215557 (0-14-021555-7)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Bernard Shaw: The Diaries, 1885-1897 With Early Autobiographical Notebooks and Diaries, and an Abortive 1917 Diaryby Bernard Shaw, Stanley WeintraubISBN 0271003863 (0-271-00386-3)
Hardcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Caesar And Cleopatra: A Historyby Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, Stanley WeintraubISBN 0143039776 (0-14-303977-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Disraeliby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0140231250 (0-14-023125-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Stanley WeintraubISBN 0131305468 (0-13-130546-8)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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The London Yankees: Portraits of American Writers and Artists in England, 1894-1914by Stanley WeintraubISBN 0151529787 (0-15-152978-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophyby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0140437886 (0-14-043788-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy'Book summary:How tantalizing to hear Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler's List) but not be able to see him! And hear him one does in his role as Jack Tanner, the antihero of Shaw's 1905 classic drama Man and Superman. Fiennes is a veritable mouthpiece--and a frequently sarcastic one at that--for the burning issues on Shaw's philosophical and social laundry list: the state of the English working class, the arms race, women's rights, unwed mothers, the evils of industry and capitalism, and English morality in general. The seriousness of the discussions is tempered by delightful Shavian wit ("There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."), which prevents the dialogue from collapsing under its own weight, although it does teeter at times. The four-act play, directed by the esteemed Peter Hall for BBC Radio, begins in the English countryside and ends in the mountains of Spain after a curious detour to Hell, where, in act 3, the famous dream sequence unfolds and the main characters take on such roles as Don Juan and the Devil to further hash out the meaning of existence, the definition of life force, and the power of the female sex. This is a spirited production of Shaw's imperfect but intellectually challenging work. (Running time: 225 min; four cassettes) [via]
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The Playwright and the Pirate: Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris; A Correspondenceby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0271003103 (0-271-00310-3)
Hardcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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The Portable Bernard Shawby George Bernard Shaw, Stanley WeintraubISBN 0140150900 (0-14-015090-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Portable Oscar Wildeby George Bernard Shaw, Stanley WeintraubISBN 0140150935 (0-14-015093-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Includes the following works: NovelsThe Portrait of Dorian Gray; PlaysSalome and The Importance of Being Earnest; WritingsDe Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance.
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Saint Joanby Stanley Weintraub , Bernard ShawISBN 0140437916 (0-14-043791-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studiesby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0271003669 (0-271-00366-9)
Hardcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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- Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies: ISBN 0271004266 (0-271-00426-6)
Hardcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr - Shaw the Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies: ISBN 0271006137 (0-271-00613-7)
Hardcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr - Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies: ISBN 0271003669 (0-271-00366-9)
Hardcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
- Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies: ISBN 0271004266 (0-271-00426-6)
Stillness Heard Around the Worldby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0192851985 (0-19-285198-5)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall PTR
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A Stillness Heard Round the World: The End of the Great War November 1918by Stanley WeintraubISBN 0195052080 (0-19-505208-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Thirty-year-old Major Omar Bradley lamented that his rank would be reduced to that of captain and that he was "professionally ruined." King George V celebrated with a bottle of brandy laid aside for the Battle of Waterloo. In America, for 16-year-old Charles Lindbergh the end of the war meant the purchase of a war-surplus "Flying Jenny." In a German hospital, Corporal Adolf Hitler, temporarily blinded by teargas, wept.
Weintraub has delved into the archives, sifted through a large collection of letters and diaries sent to him by survivors and heirs to survivors, and interviewed many eyewitnesses to produce this vivid rendering of the end not just of a war but of an era. Here are notable literary, military, and political figures of the 20th century as young men and women--their careers to come still at the mercy of a last bullet or burst of shrapnel. Here also are the reflections of such figures as Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and Joseph Conrad on the effects of the war, and eerie premonitions of the Second World War, whose seeds were sown in both the harshness and the paradoxical laxity of the peace agreement. A major evocation of the last days of the Great War, A Stillness Heard Round the World offers both historical vignettes and heartfelt visions of the horror of war and the ecstacy of peace. [via]More editions of A Stillness Heard Round the World: The End of the Great War November 1918:
- A Stillness Heard Round the World: The End of the Great War, November 1918: ISBN 0049400894 (0-04-940089-4)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin - A Stillness Heard Round the World: The End of the Great War November 1918: ISBN 0049400908 (0-04-940090-8)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin - A Stillness Heard Round the World: The End of the Great War November 1918: ISBN 0195052080 (0-19-505208-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- A Stillness Heard Round the World: The End of the Great War, November 1918: ISBN 0049400894 (0-04-940089-4)
Victoria: Biography of a Queenby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0044401876 (0-04-440187-6)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin, Limited
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Whistler: A Biographyby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0002119943 (0-00-211994-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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