Love Among the Artists was published in the United States in 1900 and in England in 1914, but it was written in 1881. In the ambiance of chit-chat and frivolity among members of Victorian polite society a youthful Shaw describes his views on the arts, romantic love and the practicalities of matrimony. Dilettantes, he thinks, can love and settle down to marriage, but artists with real genius are too consumed by their work to fit that pattern. The dominant figure in the novel is Owen Jack, a musical genius, somewhat mad and quite bereft of social graces. From an abysmal beginning he rises to great fame and is lionized by socialites despite his unremitting crudity. Excerpt: "It is certainly a magnificent piece of work, Herbert," said the old gentleman. "To you, as an artist, it must be a treat indeed. I don't know enough about art to appreciate it properly. Bless us! And are all those knobs made of precious stones?" "More or less precious: yes, I believe so, Mr. Sutherland," said Herbert, smiling." (Love Among The Artists, Book I) George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer and wrote more than 60 plays. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938).

With his inimitable wit and sparkle, George Bernard Shaw brings us the character of Owen Jack, a salty non-conformist composer said to have been suggested by Beethoven. The relations between Jack and the other wayward bohemians of the story with the more conventional socialites around them offers shrewd insight into the nature of the artistic temperament, with its needs for a kind of commitment that overrides the everyday claims of the heart. A novel which anticipated Shaw's first plays by more than ten years, LOVE AMONG THE ARTISTS shows him already mocking the respectable morality of the Victorian society around him.

Love among the Artists was published in the United States in 1900 and in England in 1914, but it was written in 1881. In the ambiance of chitchat and frivolity among members of Victorian polite society, a youthful Shaw describes his views on the arts, romantic love, and the practicalities of matrimony. Dilettantes, he thinks, can love and settle down to marriage, but artists with real genius are too consumed by their work to fit that pattern. The dominant figure in the novel is Owen Jack, a musical genius, somewhat mad and quite bereft of social graces. From an abysmal beginning, he rises to great fame and is lionized by socialites despite his unremitting crudity.

A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks--and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras. This book, which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the lucid intelligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of nonfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.

Rachel Lyon's first novel – soon to be made into a major motion picture starring Zoë Kravitz and Thomasin McKenzie Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers, she is at a point of desperation. Until, by pure chance, Lu discovers she’s captured a tragedy in the background of a self portrait; a boy falling to his death. The photograph turns out to be the best work of art she’s ever made. It’s an image that could change her life – if she lets it. Set in early 90s Brooklyn on the brink of gentrification, Self-Portrait with Boy is a provocative commentary about the emotional dues that must be paid on the road to success. ‘Beautifully imagined and flawlessly executed’ Joyce Carol Oates ‘A sparkling debut’ New York Times Book Review

Betrayed, beaten, and banished by his own, an outed cop fights his way across Jamaica for revenge!

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] poetic reckoning of the importance of love in a child's life . . . eloquent and moving."—People "Everything that can be called love -- from shared joy to comfort in the darkness -- is gathered in the pages of this reassuring, refreshingly honest picture book."—The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice / Staff Picks From the Book Review “Lyrical and sensitive, ‘Love’ is the sort of book likely to leave readers of all ages a little tremulous, and brimming with feeling.”—The Wall Street Journal From Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña and bestselling illustrator Loren Long comes a story about the strongest bond there is and the diverse and powerful ways it connects us all. "In the beginning there is light and two wide-eyed figures standing near the foot of your bed and the sound of their voices is love. ... A cab driver plays love softly on his radio while you bounce in back with the bumps of the city and everything smells new, and it smells like life." In this heartfelt celebration of love, Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña and bestselling illustrator Loren Long depict the many ways we experience this universal bond, which carries us from the day we are born throughout the years of our childhood and beyond. With a lyrical text that's soothing and inspiring, this tender tale is a needed comfort and a new classic that will resonate with readers of every age.

A collection of literary criticism from the Nobel Prize–winning playwright behind such classics as Saint Joan and Pygmalion. The Critical Shaw: On Literature is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw’s ideas and opinions on a wide range of literary forms of expression, from Shakespearean drama to ghost stories, from naturalist novels to philosophical essays. Shaw meticulously applied his comprehensive knowledge of the intricacies of writing and publishing (composition, typesetting, style, themes, censorship) and in the process produced an extensive array of critical works spanning more than fifty years. Always with an axe to grind—whether aesthetic, ethical, or otherwise—Shaw tested the boundaries of satire in his critical essays, occasionally locking horns as a result with some of the most prominent authors of his lifetime. Displaying wit and wisdom in equal proportions, some of his reviews remain fresh even though the authors and books they appraised have long since fallen into oblivion. Shaw’s views about literature challenged established conventions of the canon and helped to shape a renewed collective concept of literature. The Critical Shaw series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shaw’s voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. The volumes are edited by leading Shaw scholars, and all include an introduction, a chronology of Shaw’s life and works, annotated texts, and a bibliography. The series editor is L.W. Conolly, literary adviser to the Shaw Estate and former president of the International Shaw Society.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this meticulously edited George Bernard Shaw collection:_x000D_ Introduction:_x000D_ Mr. Bernard Shaw (by G. K. Chesterton)_x000D_ Novels:_x000D_ Cashel Byron's Profession _x000D_ An Unsocial Socialist _x000D_ Love Among The Artists _x000D_ The Irrational Knot _x000D_ Plays:_x000D_ Plays Unpleasant:_x000D_ Widowers' Houses (1892)_x000D_ The Philanderer (1898)_x000D_ Mrs. Warren's Profession (1898)_x000D_ Plays Pleasant:_x000D_ Arms And The Man: An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts (1894)_x000D_ Candida (1898)_x000D_ You Never Can Tell (1897)_x000D_ Three Plays for Puritans:_x000D_ The Devil's Disciple _x000D_ Caesar And Cleopatra_x000D_ Captain Brassbound's Conversion _x000D_ Other Plays:_x000D_ The Man Of Destiny _x000D_ The Gadfly Or The Son of the Cardinal _x000D_ The Admirable Bashville Or Constancy Unrewarded _x000D_ Man And Superman: A Comedy and A Philosophy _x000D_ John Bull's Other Island _x000D_ How He Lied To Her Husband _x000D_ Major Barbara _x000D_ Passion, Poison, And Petrifaction _x000D_ The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy _x000D_ The Interlude At The Playhouse _x000D_ Getting Married _x000D_ The Shewing-Up Of Blanco Posnet _x000D_ Press Cuttings _x000D_ Misalliance _x000D_ The Dark Lady Of The Sonnets _x000D_ Fanny's First Play _x000D_ Androcles And The Lion _x000D_ Overruled: A Demonstration _x000D_ Pygmalion _x000D_ Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores) _x000D_ The Music Cure _x000D_ Beauty's Duty (Unfinished) _x000D_ O'Flaherty, V. C. _x000D_ The Inca Of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta _x000D_ Augustus Does His Bit _x000D_ Skit For The Tiptaft Revue _x000D_ Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress _x000D_ Heartbreak House _x000D_ Back To Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch _x000D_ In the Beginning_x000D_ The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas_x000D_ The Thing Happens_x000D_ Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman_x000D_ As Far as Thought Can Reach_x000D_ The War Indemnities (Unfinished)_x000D_ Saint Joan _x000D_ The Glimpse Of Reality: A Tragedietta _x000D_ Fascinating Foundling: Disgrace To The Author _x000D_ The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza _x000D_ Too True to Be Good _x000D_ Village Wooing: A Comedietta for Two Voices _x000D_ On the Rocks: A Political Comedy _x000D_ The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles _x000D_ The Six of Calais _x000D_ Arthur and the Acetone _x000D_ The Millionairess _x000D_ Cymbeline Refinished: A Variation on Shakespeare's Ending _x000D_ Geneva _x000D_ "In Good King Charles' Golden Days" _x000D_ Playlet on the British Party System _x000D_ Buoyant Billions: A Comedy of No Manners _x000D_ Shakes versus Shav _x000D_ Farfetched Fables _x000D_ Why She Would Not _x000D_ Miscellaneous Works:_x000D_ What do Men of Letters Say? - The New York Times Articles on War (1915):_x000D_ "Common Sense About the War" by G. B. Shaw_x000D_ "Shaw's Nonsense About Belgium" By Arnold Bennett_x000D_ "Bennett States the German Case" by G. B. Shaw_x000D_ Flaws in Shaw's Logic By Cunninghame Graham_x000D_ Editorial Comment on Shaw By The New York World_x000D_ Comment by Readers of Shaw To the Editor of The New York Times_x000D_ Open Letter to President Wilson by G. B. Shaw_x000D_ A German Letter to G. Bernard Shaw By Herbert Eulenberg_x000D_ "Mr. G.