The Only Use of
George Bernard Shaw
in
Brave New World
- …the child was asleep, a broadcast programme from London suddenly started to come through; and the next morning, to the astonishment of his crash and crash (the more daring of the boys ventured to grin at one another), Little Reuben woke up repeating word for word a long lecture by that curious old writer ("one of the very few whose works have been permitted to come down to us"), George Bernard Shaw, who was speaking, according to a well-authenticated tradition, about his own genius.†
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Definition:
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(George Bernard Shaw) British writer (born in Ireland) who received both a Pulitzer Prize and an Oscar; most remembered for satirical plays such as Pygmalion and Man and Superman (1856-1950)