The Doctor's Dilemma Getting Married and The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 and was one of the great literary minds of his day in addition to being one of its most entertaining personalities. In his youth he became an ardent socialist and wrote five novels which are still very entertaining although Shaw truly found his creative identity on the stage and lectern. While he was a great dramatist it is possible to argue that Shaw's prefaces are better than his plays. Certainly they are masterful expositions of his ideas and among the finest essays in English. If there is one defining virtue in Shaw it is his ability to ask awkward questions. He was not someone who accepted the status quo; instead he spent the whole of his very long life in search of something better as wit critic curmudgeon and revolutionary.