"Farfetched Fables"

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Title"Farfetched Fables"
Year for Search1951
AuthorsShaw, [George] Bernard(1856-1950)
Tertiary AuthorsShaw, Bernard
Secondary TitleBuoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, & Shakes Versus Shav
Pagination61-131
Date Published1951
PublisherConstable
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsIrish author, Male author
Annotation

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.
Additional Publishers

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. 
Info Notes

Written in 1948. First performed in London September 6, 1950. 
Translation Note

The first fable was originally published in German translation as “Phantastiche Fabel.” Neue Schweizer Rundschau (March 1950). 
Holding Institutions

VUW
Author Note

Irish author (1856-1950)
Full Text

1951 Shaw, [George] Bernard (1856-1950). “Farfetched Fables.” In his Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, & Shakes Versus Shav (London: Constable, 1951), 61-131. 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). Written in 1948. First performed in London September 6, 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. VUW

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.