Author:George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw
Works
Novels
- Cashel Byron's Profession (London, The Modern Press, 1886), written in 1882.
- An Unsocial Socialist (London, Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1887), written in 1883.
- Love Among the Artists (Chicago, Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1900, UK, 1914), written in 1881.[1]
- The Irrational Knot (New York, Brentano’s, 1905), written in 1880.
- Immaturity (London, Constable, 1931) His first novel; written in 1879.
Plays
- Plays Unpleasant:
- Widowers' Houses (1892)
- The Philanderer (1898)
- Mrs. Warren's Profession (1898)
- Plays Pleasant:
- The Man of Destiny (1897)
- Arms and the Man (1894)
- Candida (1898)
- You Never Can Tell (1897)
- Three Plays for Puritans:
- The Devil's Disciple (1897)
- Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1900)
- Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)
- The Admirable Bashville (1901)
- Man and Superman (1903) (transcription project)
- John Bull's Other Island (1904)
- How He Lied to Her Husband (1904)
- Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction (1905)
- Major Barbara (1905)[2]
- The Doctor’s Dilemma (1906)
- The Interlude at the Playhouse (1907)
- Getting Married (1908)
- The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet (1909)
- Press Cuttings (1909)
- Misalliance (1910)
- Dark Lady of the Sonnets (1910)
- Fanny's First Play (1911)
- Overruled (1912)
- Androcles and the Lion (1912)
- Preface to Androcles and the Lion (1905)
- Great Catherine (1913)
- Pygmalion (1913)
- The Music Cure (1913)
- O'Flaherty V.C. (1915)
- The Inca of Perusalem (1916)
- Augustus Does His Bit (1916)
- Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress (1917)
- Heartbreak House (1919)
- Back to Methuselah (1921)
- Saint Joan (1923)
- The Glimpse of Reality (1926)
- The Fascinating Foundling (1926)
- The Apple Cart (1929)
- How These Doctors Love One Another! (1931)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2027
Correspondence
- Letter to Beatrice Webb, 6 June 1898
Periodical works
- In The Commonweal:
- "The Industrial Remuneration Conference" (Vol. 1, No. 2) (Mar. 1885)
Other
- The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
- The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Nibelung's Ring (first ed. 1898)
- Tribute to the Work of Henry George (1904)
- "Coburn the Camerist" (1906) Essay in Metropolitan Magazine, May 1906
- The New Theology (1907)
- The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928) IA
- Common Sense about the War (1914)
- Memories of Oscar Wilde (1916, printed as an appendix to Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions)
- A Treatise on Parents and Children
- Do We Agree? (1928) A debate between G. B. Shaw and G. K. Chesterton.
- The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028 due to Renewal R248554
Works not yet in the public domain
- The Black Girl in Search of God (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028
- Too True to Be Good (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028
- Village Wooing (1933)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2029
- On the Rocks (1933)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2029
- The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (1934)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2030
- The Six of Calais (1934)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2030
- Arthur and the Acetone (1936)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2032
- The Millionairess (1936)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2032
- Cymbeline Refinished (1937)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2033
- Geneva (1938)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2034
- Buoyant Billions (1948)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2044
- Shakes versus Shav (1949)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2045
- Farfetched Fables (1948-1950)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2044
- Why She Would Not (1950)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2046
Works about Shaw
- George Bernard Shaw (1910) by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- "George Bernard Shaw" in The Social Significance of the Modern Drama, by Emma Goldman (1914)
- "Lines to G. B. Shaw" by Robert E. Howard
- "Shaw, George Bernard," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Shaw, George Bernard," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Shaw, George Bernard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Shaw, George Bernard," in Thom's Irish Who's Who (pp. 229−230), Dublin: Alexander Thom & Co. (1923)
Parodies of Shaw
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.
This author died in 1950, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 74 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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