An Unsocial Socialist
1887
In this early masterpiece, Shaw introduces Sidney Trefusis: part philosopher, part provocateur, entirely impossible to ignore. The son of a wealthy man, Sidney renounces his fortune and abandons his devoted wife to live as a peasant, driven by an uncompromising conviction that bourgeois society is built on exploitation. When he takes a job as a gardener at a girls' school, he meets Agatha Wylie, a woman as sharp and independent as he is, and precisely the kind of person he cannot charm. What follows is a dazzling display of Shaw's wit as Sidney attempts to convert everyone around him to his radical vision, only to discover that some systems of oppression cannot be dismantled with paradox alone. The novel crackles with the energy of a thinker who believed comedy was the highest form of critique, and it announces, with remarkable confidence, the ideas that Shaw would spend a lifetime refining.
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