It tells the story of Cashel Byron, a young Irishman who is a champion boxer and wrestler. Despite his athletic success, he is treated as a social outcast due to his lower-class background. Seeking to rise in social status, Cashel becomes a professional "pugilist" - a paid boxer - and enters the world of high society through his association with a...More
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political...More
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first public success, Arms and the Man in 1894. Influenced by Henrik Ibsen, he sought to introduce a new realism into English-language drama, using his plays as vehicles to disseminate his political, social and religious ideas.
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It tells the story of Cashel Byron, a young Irishman who is a champion boxer and wrestler. Despite his athletic success, he is treated as a social outcast due to his lower-class background. Seeking to rise in social status, Cashel becomes a professional "pugilist" - a paid boxer - and enters the world of high society through his association with a wealthy patron named Lydia Carew. Through Cashel's experiences in the world of professional boxing and high society, Shaw satirizes both the hypocrisy of Victorian morality and the class system of British society. The novel also explores the themes of ambition, social mobility, and the search for identity.
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