The Proverbial Bernard Shaw: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of George Bernard Shaw
- ISBN-10
- 0313292183
- ISBN-13
- 9780313292187
- Category
- Proverbs in literature
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Authors
- George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder
Description
Bernard Shaw was a prolific author of book reviews, novels, plays, criticism, essays, and correspondence. Throughout his voluminous writings, proverbs occur repeatedly. This book is a comprehensive index to proverbs in Shaw's writings. Introductory material discusses Shaw's use of proverbs, and the bulk of the volume is a key-word listing of proverbs in Shaw's works. Index entries cite the page numbers of Shaw's works in which the proverbs appear.
