@booklet {1395, title = {"Farfetched Fables"}, howpublished = {Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, \& Shakes Versus Shav}, year = {1951}, note = {

Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1974), 7: 377-466. The first fable was originally published in German translation as \“Phantastiche Fabel.\” Neue Schweizer Rundschau (March 1950). \ See \“Preface.\” The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1974), 7: 381-428. Rpt. as \“Farfetched Fables (1951).\” In his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 3: 1930-1950. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1997), 494-531.\ 

}, month = {1951}, pages = {61-131}, publisher = {Constable}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Six fables ranging in time from the contemporary to the far future. A number are satires on utopian aspirations, with satires on diet, genetics, and education, among other topics.

}, keywords = {Irish author, Male author}, author = {[George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)} }