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An Unsocial Socialist

Bernard Shaw

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. . .I thought his life in danger? I have reasons—I know that he is only gone away."

"Oh, indeed! He took his portmanteau with him, did he? Perhaps he has gone to Paris to buy you something nice and give you a pleasant surprise."

"No," said Henrietta dejectedly. "He knew that I wanted nothing."

"Then I suppose he got tired of you and ran away."

Henrietta's peculiar scarlet blush flowed rapidly over her cheeks as she flung Agatha's arm away, exclaiming, "How dare you say so! You have no heart. He adored me."

"Bosh!" said Agatha. "People always grow tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person."

"I know you are," said Henrietta, pained and spiteful. "You have always been particularly fond of yourself."

"Very likely he resembles me in that respect. In that case he will grow . . . Read More

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Really enjoyable read, stirred up strong feelings!

You don't have to love the main character to love the book!! This is a great story with twisting plot and sharp, clever prose. Typical GBS!

George Bernard Shaw was a master of the satire, and he used his pen as a knife to cut through the bejeweled ribbons of a class structure that he found to be both unsustainable and at the pinnacle of it's success.

In this work, he elucidates the concepts of socialism far better than any of the actual

لم يكن الكتابُ ممتعاً من حيثُ اللغة الراقية التي استخدمها شو في الكتابة أو الدكتور ثروت عُكاشة في الترجمة, كذلك لم تَكمن متعة الكتاب في تَصفُح آراء شو و ربطِه بينَ شخصيات مسرحيات فاجنر الخيالية و الواقع, بل مُتعتي المُفضلة التي خرجت بها من قراءة مولَع بفاجنر, كانت الفرصة لرؤية الموسيقى التي لمست قل

Never mind tomorrow. Be like the sun and the meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

I cannot sit at their feasts knowing how much they cost in human misery, and seeing how little they produce of human happiness.

The world is mad nowadays, and is galloping to the deuce as

كتاب لبرنارد شو في نقد موسيقى الألماني فاجنر
في البدء تحسب أنّ الكتاب مجرد نقد موسيقى لعمل أوبرالي عادي قبل أن يكشف بيرنارد شو عن شيء كبير جدا وهو أنّ عمل فاجنر العظيم (خاتم النبييلونج) هي دراما موسيقية رمزية بالغة الأثر، وهي بعمقها وأصالتها تشكل الرافد الفلسفي ‏الأساسي لأطروحات نيتشه وإنسانه الأعلى،

ربما لو قرات هذا الكتاب في الماضي ما كنت لافهمه. هناك كتب عندما يحين وقت قراءتها هي من تناديك كان الكتب تمتلك ارواحا تجذبك اليها اذا كانت روحك ستتوافق مع روحها وتنفرك منها اذا لم تكن جاهزا بعد لاكتشافها. وموسيقى فاغنر من اجمل ما سمعت من اين جاء بكل ذلك الجمال. اوبرا خاتم النيبولينج (شكل من اشكال الم

It was back in the days, when I had a compulsion for buying books, that I found myself in the back alleys of the famous M.G. Road in Bangalore. I was wandering without purpose when I found myself in front of a second-hand-book-store. I was in love with graphic novels then, having discovered Moore re

الكتاب يدور حول وجهة نظر برنارد شو إلى مسرحية (خاتم النيبيلونج) بأجزائها الأربعة لفاجنر،،

وهي مستقاة من عالم الأساطير والآلهة والأرواح والخير والشر، ولكن (شو) لا يراها كذلك، فهو في هذا الكتاي يسقط أحداثها بعد تلخيصها على الواقع والنظم التي تحكمه ورموز شخصياتها الأسطورية وإلام ترمز من شخصيات الواقع .

Oh, my sweet Fabian Jesus, was Shaw ever unbearable when he wrote this! It is from his early(ish) years (1884), I grant him, and in his preface he draws a line between himself as young novel writer and the older playwright and man of political experience. I try not to confuse authors with characters

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