1913. Most of Shaws early plays were either banned by the censor or refusedproduction. He began the practice of writing the challenging mocking eloquentprefaces... » 

1913. Most of Shaws early plays were either banned by the censor or refusedproduction. He began the practice of writing the challenging mocking eloquentprefaces to his plays which were sometimes longer than the play itself. In1925 he won the Nobel prize. The Unsocial Socialist is one of Shaws lastsatires and was the inspiration for the play Smash. The book begins In thedusk of an October evening a sensible looking woman of forty came out throughan oaken door to a broad landing on the first floor of an old English countryhouse. A braid of her hair had fallen forward as if she had been stooping overbook or pen and she stood for a moment to smooth it and to gazecontemplativelynot in the least sentimentallythrough the tall narrow window.The sun was setting but its glories were at the other side of the house forthis window looked eastward where the landscape of sheepwalks and pasture landwas sobering at the approach of darkness. See other titles by this authoravailable from Kessinger Publishing. «