Georgian eyes are smiling
Frank Kermode, 15 September 1988
Bernard Shaw. Vol. I: The Search for Love, 1856-1898
by Michael Holroyd.
Chatto, 486 pp., £16, September 1988,0 7011 3332 5 Show More
by Michael Holroyd.
Chatto, 486 pp., £16, September 1988,
Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters. Vol. IV
edited by Dan Laurence.
Bodley Head, 946 pp., £30, June 1988,0 370 31130 2 Show More
edited by Dan Laurence.
Bodley Head, 946 pp., £30, June 1988,
Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies. Vol. VIII
edited by Stanley Weintraub.
Pennsylvania State, 175 pp., $25, April 1988,0 271 00613 7 Show More
edited by Stanley Weintraub.
Pennsylvania State, 175 pp., $25, April 1988,
Shaw’s Sense of History
by J.L. Wisenthal.
Oxford, 186 pp., £22.50, April 1988,0 19 812892 4 Show More
by J.L. Wisenthal.
Oxford, 186 pp., £22.50, April 1988,
Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Vol. III: 1903-1907
edited by Frederick Karl and Laurence Davies.
Cambridge, 532 pp., £35, April 1988,0 521 32387 8 Show More
edited by Frederick Karl and Laurence Davies.
Cambridge, 532 pp., £35, April 1988,
“... There were already good biographies of Shaw, notably those of Frank Harris and Hesketh Pearson, both of whom knew Shaw and had the benefit of his energetic interventions. Pearson in particular will not be easily supplanted. Nevertheless the archives of the world are full of Shaviana inaccessible before his death, and because there had not been a serious attempt since 1956 – the centenary year – the Shaw Estate sensibly decided that the time had come for a new biography, and invited Mr Holroyd to write it ... ”
