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Tables of Contents for The Complete Prefaces
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editors' Note
ix
 
Immaturity (1930)
3
34
Poems of Mihail Eminescu (1930)
37
2
An Unsocial Socialist (Collected Edition, 1930)
39
1
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism: To the Intelligent Hebrew Woman (1930/31)
40
2
The Apple Cart (1930)
42
20
The Philanderer (Collected Edition, 1930)
62
1
Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence (1931)
63
22
Doctors' Delusions: A Word First (1931)
85
2
Fabian Essays in Socialism: Forty Years Later (1931)
87
10
[Troubetskoy Exhibition Catalogue] (1931)
97
3
The Rationalization of Russia (1932/1964)
100
14
Dolls and Puppets: Note on Puppets (1932)
114
1
A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklyn Barnabas (1932)
115
2
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932/1946)
117
14
The Marketing of Literary Property (1933)
131
10
Where Stands Socialism To-day? (1933)
141
1
Myself and My Friends: An Aside (1933)
142
7
The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home: An Explanation (1933)
149
5
Too True to be Good (1934)
154
21
On the Rocks (1934)
175
39
Prefaces: To Introduce the Prefaces (1934) 1933 postscripts to Widowers' Houses, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet, and Three Plays by Brieux
214
7
Complete Plays: A Warning from the Author (1934)
221
2
Will No Man Understand? (1934)
223
3
Portraits and Figures of Sigismund de Strobl (1935)
226
3
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles: Preface on Days of Judgment (1936)
229
13
The Six of Calais (1936)
242
2
The Millionairess: Preface on Bosses (1936)
244
24
Morris as I Knew Him (1936)
268
27
Ensor Walters and the London He Loves: Memories of Early Years (1937)
295
2
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism: Author's Note (Pelican Edition, 1937)
297
3
Great Expectations (1937/1947)
300
14
Cymbeline Refinished: Collaborator's Note (1937/1947)
314
6
London Music in 1888-89 (1937)
320
23
[`MARS' Exhibition]: New Architecture (1938)
343
3
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets: Prologue (B B C broadcast, 1938)
346
3
My Apprenticeship (1938)
349
4
Oscar Wilde (1938)
353
35
Pygmalion: (spoken preface to film version, for American audiences, 1938)
388
2
Shaw Gives Himself Away (later Sixteen Self Sketches): My Apology for This Book (1939/1949)
390
3
Major Barbara: (spoken preface to film version, for American audiences, 1941)
393
2
Major Barbara: (written preface for film version, for British audiences, 1941)
395
1
The R.A.D.A. Graduates' Keepsake and Counsellor (1941)
396
12
The Miraculous Birth of Language (1941)
408
21
Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W. B. Yeats: An Explanatory Word (1941)
429
3
The Truth about Soviet Russia: The Webbs (1942)
432
6
Hitler Has Won! (1946)
438
2
Geneva (1947)
440
24
`In Good King Charles's Golden Days' (1947)
464
7
Against Corporal Punishment in Schools (1947)
471
1
Pugilism (1947)
472
2
Pictures (1947)
474
3
Sydney Olivier: Some Impressions (1948)
477
12
Buoyant Billions (1948/1950)
489
5
Farfetched Fables (1951)
494
38
Shakes versus Shav (1951)
532
2
Salt and His Circle (1951)
534
9
Appendix
543
36
Communism: Editor's Note (1903)
543
4
Man and Superman: A Foreword to the Popular Edition (1911)
547
2
War Issues for Irishmen: A Word going to Press (1918)
549
3
On Ritual, Religion, and the Intolerableness of Tolerance (1922)
552
26
Still after The Doll's House: The Author's Apology (1932)
578
1
Index
579
 
David Bowron