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Subtitle: a metabiological pentateuch
By: by Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Brentano's
Published: 1922
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Longevity; Drama
Description: Five linked plays that expound Shaw's philosophy of creative evolution in an extended dramatic parable that progresses through time from the Garden of Edesn to AD 31,920. Cf Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Notes: One essay and a series of five plays.

Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.

Gift; the family of Donald C. Brace.
Table of contents: title: The infidel half century --; title: In the beginning : B.C. 4004 (in the Garden of Eden) --; title: The gospel of the brothers Barnabas : present day --; title: The thing happens : A.D. 2170 --; title: Tragedy of an elderly gentleman : A.D. 3000 --; title: As far as thought can reach : A.D. 31,920.