Fabian Society and A Supporter of Feminism and Vegetarianism. His Best-Known Works

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) an Irish writer of plays, novels and articles about
music and literature who lived in England for much of his life. He is best known for his
plays, which are full of intelligent and amusing remarks and criticisms of society. He is
also famous for his campaigns for social change. He was one of the earliest members of the
Fabian Society and a supporter of feminism and vegetarianism. His best-known works
include The Devil's Disciple (1897), Major Barbara (1905) and Pygmalion (1913). He
was given the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. When he died he left money for the
invention of a new alphabet that would make the English spelling system simpler.
III. Translate into English.
1. George Bernard Shaw is an outstanding Irish playwright and novelist, winner of the
Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the most famous Irish literary figures. Public figure
(socialist-Fabian, supporter of the reform of English writing). One of the co-founder/
founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science. The second (after
Shakespeare) most popular playwright in the English theater.
One of only two people in history (the other being Bob Dylan) to be awarded The
Nobel Prize in Literature (1925, "For creativity marked by idealism and humanism, for
sparkling satire, which is often combined with exceptional poetic beauty"), and the
Academy Award (1939, for the screenplay of the film "Pygmalion"). An active promoter of
vegetarianism.
From 21 to 31 July 1931, Bernard Shaw visited the USSR, where on 29 July he had a
personal meeting with Joseph Stalin. In addition to the capital, Show has visited in the
province, the commune of Lenin of the Tambov region, which was considered an
exemplary one. Returning from the Soviet Union, Shaw said:
"I am leaving the state of hope and returning to our Western countries-the countries of
despair… It is a great comfort to me, an old man, to know that the world's civilization will
be saved when I go to my grave…Here, in Russia, I became convinced that the new
communist system is able to lead humanity out of the modern crisis and save it from
complete anarchy and destruction."
2. George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin on 26 July 1856 in the family of George
Shaw, a grain merchant, and Lucinda Shaw, a professional singer. He had two sisters:
Lucinda Frances, a theater singer, and Elinor Agnes, who died of tuberculosis at the age of
21.
Shaw attended Wesley College in Dublin and a grammar school. He received his
secondary education in Dublin. At the age of eleven, he was sent to a Protestant school,
where he was, in his own words, the penultimate or last pupil. He called school the most
harmful stage of his education. "it never occurred to Me to prepare lessons or tell the truth
to this universal enemy and executioner — the teacher." The education system has been
repeatedly criticized by Shaw for focusing on mental rather than spiritual development. The
author especially criticized the system of physical punishment at school. At the age of
fifteen, he became a clerk. His family didn't have the resources to send him to University,
but his uncle's connections helped him get a job at a fairly well-known Townsend real estate
Agency. One of the Show's duties was to collect the rent of Dublin slum dwellers, and the
sad experiences of these years were later translated into"widower's Homes". He was
probably a fairly capable clerk, although the monotony of the job bored him. He learned to
keep his books carefully, and also to write in a perfectly legible hand. Everything written in
Shaw's handwriting (even in his old age) was easy and pleasant to read. It has served the
Show in good stead later, when he became a professional writer: the compositors did not
know sorrow with his manuscripts. When Shaw was 16, His mother ran away from home
with her lover and daughters. Bernard decided to stay with his father in Dublin. He got an
education and went to work as an employee in a real estate office. It was a job he'd been
doing for several years, even though he didn't like it.
In 1876, Shaw went to live with his mother in London. The family welcomed him very
warmly. During this time, he visited public libraries and museums. In libraries, he began to
study hard and created his first works, and later led a newspaper column dedicated to music.
However, his early novels were not successful until 1885, when he became known as a
creative critic.
In the first half of the 1890s, he worked as a critic for the London World magazine,
where he was succeeded by Robert Hitchens.
At the same time, he became interested in social-democratic ideas and joined the
Fabian society, whose goal is to establish socialism through peaceful means. It was in this
society that he met his future wife, Charlotte Payne-Townshend, whom he married in 1898.
Bernard Shaw had connections on the side.
In recent years, the playwright lived in his own home and died at the age of 94 from
kidney failure. His body was cremated and his ashes were scattered along with those of his
wife.

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