G.B.S.: A Full Length Portrait
Hesketh Pearson
- New York Harper & Brothers, Publishers 1942
- 390 p.
The responsible parties -- "A devil of a childhood!" -- Compensations -- Ex proprio motu -- The testament of art -- Growth -- "Life is real" -- Mecca -- Poverty, potatoes and politics -- The Fabian Society -- Bloody Sunday in Trafalgar Square -- The upshot and end of Fabianism -- A romance -- The reading room -- Women -- Music -- Off duty -- Henry and Ellen -- The drama -- A Fabian vestryman -- Art for the artist's sake -- Marriage and a masterpiece -- Fin de siécle -- Royalties at the court -- Fabius v Scipio -- Controversy on all fronts -- Overflow -- Advancing conquest -- En pantoufles -- The war to end Shaw -- The strange case of Frank Harris -- Retreat to Moscow -- Apotheosis -- Grand old boy.