An Unsocial Socialist

From 1879 to 1883, before he turned to writing plays, Shaw wrote five novels. An Unsocial Socialist, the last written, concerns the activities of one Sidney Trefusis, a rich Marxist whom women find completely exasperating, or irresistible, or both, and who has definite ideas about reforming personal and political relationships. Shaw develops a plot that overturns the pieties of the middle class--including the expectations of the novel-reader--and in so doing suggests some new structures for both society and literature.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/01/1972
ISBN: 9780393006605
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.67h x 5.07w x 0.64d