Socialism and Superior Brains
Subtitle: The Political Thought of George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 21, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415124737
First sentence: Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856 into a Protestant family in financial decline: he was 'a downstart and the son of a downstart'; his class was that ephemeral social entity known as 'the Shabby Genteel, the Poor Relations, the Gentlemen who are no Gentlemen' (Shaw 1930: viii).