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Cashel Byron's Profession
Bernard Shaw
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"I cannot afford expensive dresses," said Alice.
"I should not ask you to get them if you could not afford them. I warned you that I should give you expensive habits."
Alice hesitated. She had a healthy inclination to take whatever she could get on all occasions; and she had suffered too much from poverty not to be more thankful for her good-fortune than humiliated by Miss Carew's bounty. But the thought of being driven, richly attired, in one of the castle carriages, and meeting Janet trudging about her daily tasks in cheap black serge and mended gloves, made Alice feel that she deserved all her mother's reproaches. However, it was obvious that a refusal would be of no material benefit to Janet, so she said,
"Really I could not think of imposing on your kindness in this wholesale fashion. You are too good to me."
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Community Reviews
In my student days at London University, I used to read a lot of George Bernard Shaw, a witty socialist (as they once could be!) with a very pungent view of Britain's well-aired, inadequately-heired class system in the late 19th century, when quite a lot of social progress was taking place under the
I have a hardcover from Brentano's printing 1916 US. It's Shaw's fourth novel, a prize fighter trying to woo an aristocrat. Not the Shaw of Pygmalion or Man and Superman
This read very much like the wordier of his plays, some of it does go on a bit. I didn't find the characters particularly real or involving, and I'm afraid I skipped the bloodier descriptions of the fights - I don't read modern novels much because of the violence in so many of them, I don't think I'
This is one of the few novels by George Bernard Shaw. It’s such a pleasure to read the work of an author from this time over 100 years ago who was progressive in his outlook and outspoken in broadcasting his beliefs. The future playwright draws a compelling portrait of British society busy stifling
I have admired Shaw's writing since I was about sixteen or so and first read the revised version of Pygmalion (in which he finishes off with an essay on why the movie ending SUCKS and what really happened to the characters after the play ends). But the more I read of his plays, the more I always fel
Oh, my, god. What have I just read! This book is ASTOUNDING.
Think classic Shaw combined with the cheekiness-- and sympathy-- of Austen. This book is perfect. I have no idea why there are only sixteen reviews of this book, because it is just. so. GOOD.
There are so many things right with it: caricat
Slightly amateurish, very fun
Bit of a mixed bag but overall entertaining
The scene-stealer in this book is Lydia Carew, who claims, "I prefer a man who is interested in sport to a gentleman who is interested in nothing," and who Shaw summarizes with, "She made no distinction between the subtlest philosophical sophism and the vulgarest lie."