The Non-Dramatic Works of Bernard Shaw

Waldstein: 1st novel. Written, 1879. First published, 1930. Long Preface of considerable biographical significance.

Waldstein: 2nd novel. Written, 1880. First published, 1905.

Waldstein: 3rd novel. Written, 1881. First published, 1900.

Waldstein: 4th novel. Written, 1882. Revised, 1882 & 1901. First published, 1886. Dramatised as The Admirable Bashville.

Waldstein: 5th novel. Written, 1883. First published, 1887.

Waldstein: 1891. Revised, 1913 & 1922. Prefaces, 1891, 1913 & 1922.

Waldstein: 1895.

Waldstein: 1898. Original Preface. 2nd edn., 1901. New Preface Preface for the 1st German edn., 1907. 3rd edn. (rev.), 1913. New Preface. 4th edn., 1923. New Preface.

Waldstein: 1928. Popular Edition, 1929.

Waldstein: 1931. Rev. and repr. Standard Edition, 1932. Eight essays, 1889-1908. Original Preface "Fabian Essays Forty Years Later - What They Overlooked".

Waldstein: 1931, Collected Edition. 1932, Standard Edition (revised).

Waldstein: 1931, Collected Edition. 1932, Standard Edition (revised).

Waldstein: 1931, Collected Edition. 1934, Standard Edition (revised). Disparate selection of fiction and non-fiction, including the celebrated short story "The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God", first published separately in 1932 and incorporated into this volume only in 1934.

Waldstein: 1932, Standard Edition. Contains Nos. 6-8 in one volume.

Waldstein: 1932. 3 vols. Weekly criticism for The World (28.5.1890 - 08.08.1894). See also Nos. 26 & 27.

Waldstein: 1937. Original Preface of considerable biographical significance. Criticism for The Star (15.01.1889 - 16.05.1890) as Corno di Bassetto. See also Nos. 26 & 27.

Waldstein: 1944. Last major work of non-fiction. Covers the same ground as No. 9, but in a more rambling and less lively fashion.

Waldstein: 1949. Last book GBS published during his life. Mostly written in 1947-48, but some pieces had appeared in print as early as 1898. Uneven, but with some gems.

Waldstein: 1952. Ed. Diarmuid Russell. Excellent selection of Shavian prose, excluding personal letters and prefaces to plays. Fine introduction to the non-dramatic prose of GBS.

Waldstein: 1955. Ed. Eric Bentley. Excellent selection, nicely introduced, but not annotated. Perfect introduction to GBS as a music critic.

Waldstein: 1960. Ed. Dan H. Laurence. Previously uncollected musical criticism, 1876-1950. Indispensable.

Waldstein: 1961. Ed. Edwin Wilson. The definitive selection of Shakespearean criticism. Fine preface by the editor.

Waldstein: 1962. Previously uncollected speeches. Ed. Dan H. Laurence.

Waldstein: 1969-70, 2 vols. Ed. Stanley Weintraub. Masterfully edited and quite comprehensive selection of Shavian autobiography. Indispensable.

Waldstein: 1965. The complete prefaces in one volume for the first time.

Waldstein: 1973. Nos. 15-16 as a uniform set in slipcase. Charming edition for extended reading sessions, but superseded by the more complete Shaw's Music (No. 26).

Waldstein: 1981. 3 vols. Ed. Dan H. Laurence. Rev. edn., 1989 [4 additional pieces]. The definitive edition of the music criticism. Contains everything from Nos. 15-16 & 21, but very lightly if at all annotated and hard to handle in paperback.

Waldstein: 1965-88, 4 vols. Ed. Dan H. Laurence.

Waldstein: 1993, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, xxxi+630 pp. Ed. Dan H. Laurence & Daniel J. Leary. The definitive edition of the prefaces.

Waldstein: 1995, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, ix+626 pp. Ed. Dan H. Laurence & Daniel J. Leary. The definitive edition of the prefaces.

Waldstein: 1997, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, x+621. Ed. Dan H. Laurence & Daniel J. Leary. The definitive edition of the prefaces.

Waldstein: 2006. Not a complete collection of the war writings, but still comprehensive and representative. Much harder to find and more expensive than the tiny Shaw on War (Hesperus Press, 2010), but a much better choice in every way.

Waldstein: Progress (Moscow), 1977.

Waldstein: Moscow, 1958.