title: Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition
author: Michael Holroyd
description: "Michael Holroyd is readable, sensible, and wise.... He has written a remarkable book, as authoritative as it is enchanting."
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  George Bernard Shaw
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [The Problem of a Preface  
  
  
    
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  This page formatted 2007 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  # George Bernard Shaw
  
  
  ### Gilbert K. Chesterton
  
  
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  GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
  
  By
  
  
  GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
  
  NEW YORK
  
  JOHN LANE COMPANY
  
  MCMIX
  
  COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY JOHN LANE COMPANY
  
  THE PLIMPTON PRESS, NORWOOD, 