Michael Holroyd

Bernard Shaw

The One-Volume Definitive Edition

"We regard Mr. Holroyd with awe, as a prodigy among biographers."

—New York Times Book Review

IN A SINGLE-VOLUME FORMAT, Michael Holroyd's masterpiece of a biography offers new verve and pace; Shaw's world is more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship.

"Michael Holroyd is readable, sensible, and wise. . . . He has written a remarkable book, as authoritative as it is enchanting."—Washington Post

December 2005 / trade paper / ISBN 0-393-32718-3 / 27 illustrations / 864 pages / BIOGRAPHY