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Article: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW WAS A MAN OF (MANY) LETTERS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 6, 1988
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Forget Shaw's plays.
When he hit his stride, the apparently tireless Irish
playwright wrote 10 letters a day, some of them running to 50
pages. (Shaw appended a particularly voluble letter, "Forgive this
long letter; I don't have time to write a short one.") There's the
further matter of Shaw's five novels, his innumerable essays, his
drama and music criticism, as well as the extension of that
criticism in "The Quintessence of Ibsenism" and "The Complete
Wagnerite." In addition, there are those plays, some of which come
with prefaces as long as -- or longer than -- Shaw's average
correspondence. In numbers alone, Shaw was a formidable figure. He
lived to be 94.
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