Book description
Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and
paradox, he is determined to overthrow a society riddled with class and
sexual exploitation. Henrietta, his adoring wife, 'loves' him: he must
abandon her. Son of a millionaire, he gives up everything to pose as an
'umble peasant'. But when this unsocial socialist goes to work as a
gardener in the vicinity of a girls' school he meets his match - for
Agatha Wylie is a new kind of woman, perfectly armed: and she doesn't
love him. With the character of his clown-prophet Trefusis, George
Bernard Shaw presented for the first time his view of what the
relationship between the sexes should be. Galloping, exuberant, and
irresistibly entertaining, AN UNSOCIAL SOCIALIST is a brilliant satire
on social prejudice from a great author of the past. George Bernard
Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856, moving to London in 1876. His other
written novels were IMMATURITY, THE IRRATIONAL KNOT, LOVE AMONG THE
ARTISTS and CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION. In 1925 Shaw was awarded the
Nobel Prize for literature. He refused a peerage and the Order of Merit
from the first Labour Government. He died in 1950.
