The Devil's Disciple (NEW LONGMAN LITERATURE 14-18) - Hardcover

Shaw, George B; Bennett, Andrew; Taylor, Jim; Jones, Gavin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0582434440 ISBN 13: 9780582434448

Publisher: Longman, 2001

Synopsis

1877.  The American Civil War is raging and Dick Dudgeon is the Devil’s Disciple, the black sheep in a self-righteous puritan family.  But, then trapped in the house of the rebel leader, his mistaken identity leads him towards the gallows… and an act of heroism.

Hardback   144pp

About this title

About the Author

BERNARD SHAW was born in Dublin in 1856. After his arrival in London in 1876 he became an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He wrote on many social aspects of the day: on Common Sense about the War (1914), How to Settle the Irish Question (1917) and The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928). He undertook his own education at the British Museum and consequently became keenly interested in cultural subjects. Thus his prolific output included music, art and theatre reviews, which were collected into several volumes such as Music in London 1890-1894 (3 vols, 1931); Pen Portraits and Reviews (1931); and Our Theatres in the Nineties (3 vols, 1931). He also wrote five novels and some shorter fiction, including The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales and Cashel Byron's Profession, both published in Penguin's Bernard Shaw Library. He conducted a strong attack on the London theatre and was closely associated with the intellectual revival of British theatre. His plays fall into several categories: 'Plays Pleasant'; 'Plays Unpleasant'; comedies; chronicle-plays; 'metabiological Pentateuch' (Back to Methuselah, a series of plays); and 'political extravaganzas'. Bernard Shaw died in 1950.

Synopsis

Dick Dudgeon is the black sheep of his Puritan family, and under sentence of death in the American Civil War. This edition is part of a series of pre- and post-1914 works chosen especially for 14-18 year olds. The series features fiction, anthologies, poetry, plays and non-fiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0582434440
• ISBN 13: 9780582434448
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112