Books by George Bernard Shaw

“Shaw paints a portrait of Caesar in which all the motivations that romantic biographers and filmmakers like to show as being all for love, were actually driven by hard-nosed, brutal political calculations and realities. Shaw was making comments, in a sense, on the British occupation of Egypt, which had started in 1882, and relating it to the Roman occupation.” Read more...

The best books on Julius Caesar

Peter Stothard, Journalist

“I think all these books are very good for demystifying the whole process of music-making, and George Bernard Shaw was great at that. He represented a school that was aiming at shedding the pomposity and pretentiousness in music criticism. He takes a very witty, very down-to-earth approach. He’ll spend as much time on the officiousness of provincial stewards and ushers as he will on the music and whoever is singing. He’s got a very good eye for those details that make it more relevant and interesting to the non-musical ear. His reviews are so much fun – almost every week I go back to another, and they’ve got brilliant titles as well.” Read more...

The best books on Classical Music

Igor Toronyi-Lalic, Musicians, Music Critics & Scholar