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The Irrational Knot
This book explores themes of class, morality, and the complexities of human relationships, using characters that represent a cross-section of society and its values.
"The Irrational Knot" by George Bernard Shaw is a novel. This book explores themes of class, morality, and the complexities of human relationships, using characters that represent a cross-section of society and its values.
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This novel was written in the year 1880, only a few years after I had exported myself from Dublin to London in a condition of extreme rawness and inexperience concerning the specifically English side of the life with which the book pretends to deal. Everybody wrote novels then. It was my second attempt; and it shared the fate of my first. That is to say, nobody would publish it, though I tried all the London publishers and some American ones. And I should not greatly blame them if I could feel sure that it was the book’s faults and not its qualities that repelled them.
I have narrated elsewhere how in the course of time the rejected MS. became Mrs. Annie Besant’s excuse for lending me her ever helping hand by publishing it as a serial in a little propagandist magazine of hers. That was how it got loose beyond all possibility of recapture. It is out of my power now to stand between it and the American public: all I can do is to rescue it from unauthorized mutilations and make the best of a jejune job.
Contents
- 01Preface
- 02To the American Edition of 1905
- 03Book I
- 04The Irrational Knot
- 05Chapter I
- 06Chapter II
- 07Chapter III
- 08Chapter IV
- 09Chapter V
- 10Chapter VI
- 11Book II
- 12Chapter VII
- 13Chapter VIII
- 14Chapter IX
- 15Chapter X
- 16Chapter XI
- 17Book III
- 18Chapter XII
- 19Chapter XIII
- 20Chapter XIV
- 21Chapter XV
- 22Chapter XVI
- 23Chapter XVII
- 24Book IV
- 25Chapter XVIII
- 26Chapter XIX
- 27Chapter XX
- 28Chapter XXI
About this edition
- Author
- Bernard Shaw
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 351 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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