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The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp( )
Author: Davies, W. H.
Preface by: Shaw, George Bernard
ISBN:978-1-61219-022-8
Publication Date:Jan 2012
Publisher:Melville House Publishing
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $24.99
Book Description:

A Welsh tramp who became a popular poet acclaimed by conservative Georgians and vanguard Ezra Pound alike, W.H. Davies surprised contemporaries with the unlikeliest portrait of the artist as a young man ever written. Praised by Osbert Sitwell for 'primitive splendour and directness,' Davies evokes the beauty and frontier violence of turn-of-the-century America in prose George Bernard Shaw commended.The insurgent wanderlust voice is expressed here with raucous exuberence.

Book Details
Pages:254
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Social Science / Sociology / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13 x 20.3 x 1.5 cm
Book Weight:0.282 Kilograms
Author Biography
Davies, W. H. (Author)
Renowned literary genius George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. He later moved to London and educated himself at the British Museum while several of his novels were published in small socialist magazines.

Shaw later became a music critic for the Star and for the World. He was a drama critic for the Saturday Review and later began to have some of his early plays produced.

Shaw wrote the plays Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion, which was later adapted as My Fair Lady in both the musical and film form. He also transformed his works into screenplays for Saint Joan, How He Lied to Her Husband, Arms and the Man, Pygmalion, and Major Barbara. Shaw won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

George Bernard Shaw died on November 2, 1950 at Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England.

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