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Digireads.com Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (18561950) is revered as one of the great British dramatists credited not only with memorable works but the revival of the thensuffering English theatre. Shaw was born in Dublin Ireland left mostly to his own devices after his mother ran off to London to pursue a musical career. He educated himself for the most part and eventually worked for a real estate agent. This experience founded in him a concern for social injustices seeing poverty and general unfairness afoot and would go on to address this in many of his works. In 1876 Shaw joined his mother in London where he would finally attain literary success. Back the Methuselah is regarded as Science Fiction and a sort of commentary on human destiny. It consists of a preface (An Infidel Half Century) and a series of five plays: In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden) The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170 Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A.D. 3000 and As Far as Thought Can Reach: A.D. 31920.show more