Shaw and Chesterton: The Metaphysical Jesters

by William B. Furlong

In this scholarly, eminently readable volume, Professor Furlong has given us the details of one of the most remarkable literary relationships of the 20th century. George Bernard Shaw and Gilbert Keith Chesterton shared public platforms for sixteen years (1911 27) and private friendship for at least thirty-five (1901 36). Whole groups of their apostles and disciples sprang up and thrived on both sides of the Atlantic; an editor had only to use the...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271001100
• ISBN13: 9780271001104
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.