Part one of term paper
George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes The author George Bernard Shaw -he later dropped the name George- was born in Dublin in 1856, the third and youngest child of an alcoholic father and an undomestic mother. He developed an interest in literature, music and painting at a very early age ...

Part two of term paper
... support. During this period he wrote his first five novels, none of them very successful; the first one was never published and the other four were sold to periodicals, to be published as serials. In 1884 he joined the Fabian Society, an utopian movement that was trying to establish a socialist society through co-operation with the ‘ bourgeois' classes. He wrote a great number of speeches, pamphlets and articles for the Fabians, and in 1889 he edited the Fabian Essays, an im ...