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Table of Contents: “…In the beginning (with extracts from the preface to Back to Methuselah) --…”

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Unpleasant prelude -- Arms and the man -- Candida -- The devil's disciple -- Caesar and Cleopatra -- Man and superman -- Major Barbara -- The doctor's dilemma -- Pygmalion -- Heartbreak house -- Back to Methuselah -- Saint Joan.…”

Table of Contents: “…Reading writing : going behind the scenes of the text -- The critic : the writer's shadow -- Authorial identity : Promethean strategies of a pantomime ostrich -- The spoken/written subject : the machine in the ghost -- A writing machine (Man of destiny, How he lied, Village wooing) -- The playwright and the critics (The philanderer, Fanny's first play) -- Mystery and ritual : theater and textuality (Candida, Getting married) -- The image and the word (Back to Methuselah).…”

Table of Contents: “…Pygmalion. --v.2 Back to Methuselah. --v.3 The black girl in search of God and some lesser tales. -- v.4 Buoyant billions. …”

Table of Contents: “…From On going to church, 1896 -- From The preface to Man and superman, 1903 -- From Man and superman, 1901-1903 -- From John Bull's other Island, 1904 -- From Major Barbara, 1905 -- On miracles : a retort, 1908 -- From The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet, 1909 -- God must be non-sectarian and international, 1912 -- From Common sense about the war, 1914 -- From On the prospects of Christianity, 1915 -- Quot Homines, Tot Christi, 1916 -- From The infidel half century, 1920 -- From Back to Methuselah, 1920 -- A catechism on my creed, 1922 -- The infancy of God, 192 -- A note on the prayer book, 192 -- On ritual, religion, and the intolerableness of tolerance, 1922 -- From the preface to Saint Joan, 1924 -- Personal immortality, 1928 -- A new stanza for the national anthem -- From The adventures of the black girl in her search for God, 1932 -- Letters to Dame Laurentia McLachlan, 1933-1935 -- From the preface to On the rocks, 1933 -- from 'In good King Charles' golden days', 1939 -- From the preface to Farfetched fables, 1948-1949 -- From Sixteen self sketches, 1949.…”