Michael Holroyd Bücher

Enrico Heinemann lebt in Tübingen und studierte unter anderem in Florenz, Lille und Mailand Romanistik und Philosophie. Er übersetzte bisher rund 250 Bücher aus dem Italienischen, Englischen und Französischen.

This is the second volume of a set of three on the life of Bernard Shaw which starts at the beginning of Shaw's marriage in 1898 and finishes at the end of the First World War.

238 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

When Michael Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was acclaimed as a masterpiece, with William Golding predicting its place "among the great biographies." Now available in an engaging abridgment, this work distills the essence of Shaw. The narrative showcases a new energy, revealing the complexities of Shaw's world as Holroyd contrasts the private and public aspects of Shaw's life with remarkable insight. A playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian, and charmer, Shaw was a controversial figure, challenging Victorian values and middle-class norms. Born in Dublin in 1856, he grew up in a troubled household, prompting his move to London to reinvent himself as the legendary G.B.S. His early life included passionate affairs and flirtations, culminating in marriage in 1898. By the turn of the century, Shaw was a theatrical impresario, known for his impactful plays like Man and Superman and Pygmalion, using humor to critique British society. An international icon by the 1920s, he remained provocative throughout his life, receiving a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award. In his later years, Shaw continued to produce powerful works, revealing himself as a conjurer and visionary. Covering nearly a century, this biography presents a vivid portrait of both Shaw and the era he influenced.

Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene both acknowledged the influence of this remarkable autobiographical novel.

In The Search for Love biographer Michael Holroyd takes Shaw from his birth in 1856, through a series of poignant and tantalizing love affairs, to his marriage in 1898. Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with humor, compassion and originality. Listening to the subtle mind behind Shaw's laughter and divesting Shaw of his pantomime clothing, he reveals the man who orphaned himself from his parents to become the child of his own writings.

Early in this gem of a book, Michael Holroyd points out that it marks the last volume in his confessions of an elusive biographer, a trilogy that began with his memoir Basil Street Blues and then, in Mosaic, moved sideways to explore two enigmatic women interlaced in the family tapestry. Here, the links with earlier volumes are all thematic and the elusiveness is hardly the biographer's alone. Life itself, this consummate writer of lives shows us, is slippery and mysterious. ... Reading this book is a little like walking through a hall of mirrors into the final party of Proust's great opus. -- Lisa Appignanesi, The Observer, 31 October 2010On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello stands the Villa Cimbrone a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters that move through Michael Holroyd's book are destined never to meet as they lived through different eras and reside in different countries. Yet the Villa Cimbrone unites them all.

"Together with the Complete Notes and Cumulative Index for All Four Volumes": This volume combines the epilogue to Michael Holroyd's three-volume biography, Bernard Shaw, with the documentation for all four volumes.