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1) Irish saints
Author
Series
Vision books ; 63
Publisher
Farrar, Straus
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "a dramatic delight," George Bernard Shaw's only tragedy traces the life of the peasant girl who led French troops to victory over the English in the Hundred Years' War. An avid socialist, Shaw regarded his writing as a vehicle for promoting his political and humanitarian views and exposing hypocrisy. With Saint Joan, he reached the height of his fame, and it was this play that led to his Nobel Prize in Literature for 1925....