The Black Girl in Search of God And Some Lesser Tales (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Tapa blanda

The centrepiece of this colourful collection is THE BLACK GIRL IN SEARCH OF GOD, a tale in the manner of Voltaire's "CANDIDE" showing the stages of development of God, from the monster bogeyman to the Prince of Peace. In her search the Black Girl encounters a series of gentlemen, generally clothed in long white nightshirts. When she is tired of arguing and of laying about with her knobkerrie, she settles down with a red-haired Irish socialist, following Voltaire's advice that the wisest attitude to life is to cultivate one's own garden. The lesser tales range from a satirical fairy story to an obituary of an old revolutionary hero; from an essay in dramatic form on the theatre to an exposition of Don Giovanni's character.

Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish dramatist who conquered England by his wit and exposure of hypocrisy, cant, and national weaknesses, and whose individual opinions found expression in musical criticism, socialist pamphlets and plays. In 1884 he joined the newly-born Fabian Society. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.