George Bernard Shaw

In George Bernard Shaw G. K. Chesterton embarks on a dazzling critical exploration of his contemporary and intellectual rival. With his trademark wit and paradox Chesterton dissects not only Shaw's theatre and ideas but his very worldview painting a vivid portrait both admiring and irreverent. Rather than simply cataloguing differences Chesterton uncovers where he believes Shaw's thought dances close to truth and where it falls into dazzling error probing deep questions of morality society and the role of reason and imagination in public life. The effect is both a shrewd literary sketch and a larger meditation on the soul of modernity.