An edition of Back to Methuselah: a metabiological pentateuch (1921)

Back to Methuselah

A metabiological pentateuch

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An edition of Back to Methuselah: a metabiological pentateuch (1921)

Back to Methuselah

A metabiological pentateuch

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Five linked plays that expound Shaw's philosophy of creative evolution in an extended dramatic parable that progresses through time from the Garden of Edesn to AD 31,920. Cf Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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Publisher
Constable and Co.
Language
English
Pages
267

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Subjects

English drama, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), Longevity, Drama, English literature, Translation into Japanese, Japanese literature, Translations from English

Times

20th century

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BACK TO METHUSELAH: a metabiological pentateuch (classic reprint)
2015, FORGOTTEN Books
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Back to Methuselah: a metabiological Pentateuch
1977, Penguin books
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Back to Methuselah: a metabiological pentateuch
1961, Penguin Books
in English
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Back to Methuselah: a metabiological pentateuch
1945, H. Milford, Oxford University Press
in English - Rev. ed. with a postscript.
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1922, Brentano
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1921, Brentano's
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1921-08, Brentano's
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1921, Brentano's
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1921, Brentano's
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Table of Contents

Preface. An infidel half century
Part I. In the Beginning
Part II. The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
Part III. The thing happens
Part IV. Tragedy of an elderly gentleman
Part V. As Far as Thought Can Reach.

Edition Notes

Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.

Published in
London
Series
DHL/Shaw bibliography -- no. A161b.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
822/.912
Library of Congress
PR5363 .B3 1921a, PR5363 .B3 1921

The Physical Object

Pagination
xci, 267 pages
Number of pages
267

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL44990503M
LCCN
45052914
OCLC/WorldCat
299794

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1066519W

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