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...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE by George Bernard Shaw...
...theater does not survive on its masterpieces but between them. Much the same is true of Shaw. His finest works, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House and Pygmalion, are rarely performed. Conversely, scarcely a season passes when the overestimated Saint Joan and Candida do not show up on some theater's docket. One could hardly underestimate The Devil's Disciple. Shaw himself thought that this 1897 play would eventually be considered a "threadbare popular melodrama...
...Beggarman, Thief, Shaw (7) 1. Dreams Die First, Robbins...
...Hamlet is a "crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless work," complained the novelist. Man and Superman, he wrote to George Bernard Shaw, is not "sufficiently serious." The music of Beethoven, Schumann and Berlioz, he told Tchaikovsky, has "an artificial style-striving for the unexpected." The critic was Count Leo Tolstoy, and these and other remarks appear in two volumes of Tolstoy's Letters (Scribners; $35), the first comprehensive translation into English of the Russian writer's prolific correspondence. In notes to friends and fellow authors like I.S. Turgenev, Maxim Gorky, H.G. Wells and Rainer Maria Rilke, Tolstoy also takes...
FICTION 1. The Thorn Birds, McCullough (1 last week) 2. The Silmarillion, Tolkien (2) 3. The Honourable Schoolboy, Le Carré (3) 4. Illusions, Bach (6) 5. The Black Marble, Wambaugh (5) 6. Dreams Die First, Robbing (10) 7. Beggarman, Thief, Shaw (9) 8. Daniel Martin, Fowles (4) 9. The Book of Merlyn, White (7) 10. Dynasty, Elegant...