Research Catalog

Title

Platform and pulpit. Edited with an introd. by Dan H. Laurence.

Author

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

Publication

New York, Hill and Wang [1961]

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Details

Additional Authors

Laurence, Dan H.

Description

xvii, 301 p. port.; 21 cm.

Summary

Donated by Sydney Harris.

Subject

• Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 > Political and social views
• Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 > Religion
• Socialism

Note

• Speeches.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Proprietors and slaves (1885) -- Acting, by one who does not believe in it (1889) -- What socialism will be like (1896) -- The dynamitards of science (1900) -- The Court Theatre (1907) -- Literature and art (1908) -- Socialism and medicine (1909) -- The ideal of citizenship (1909) -- Smoke and genius (1911) -- The crime of poverty (1912) -- Property or slavery? (1913) -- Ethical principles of social reconstruction (1917) -- Modern religion (1919) -- Ruskin's politics (1919) -- Foundation oration (1920) -- The needs of music in Britain (1920) -- British democracy and Egypt (1921) -- The menace of the leisured woman (1927) -- Woman-man in petticoats (1927) -- A relief from the romantic film (1927) -- Censorship as a police duty (1928) -- The need for expert opinion on sexual reform (1929) -- Saint Joan (1931) -- Lenin (1931) -- The only hope of the world (1931) -- Look, you boob! (1931) -- In praise of Guy Fawkes (1932) -- Universities and education -- Film censorship (1935) -- Freedom (1935) -- Britain and the Soviets (1935) -- Truth by radio (1936) -- School (1937) -- This danger of war (1937) -- The unavoidable subject (1940) -- "Goodbye, goodbye" (1946).

LCCN

^^^61009727^

OCLC

• 362138
• SCSB-13214860

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library