Back to Methuselah : a metabiological pentateuch
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Back to Methuselah : a metabiological pentateuch
(Penguin books, Drama/Theatre)(Bernard Shaw library)
Penguin, 1939
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Back to Methuselah : a metabiological pentateuch : definitive text
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Note
"Definitive text"--On t.p. of 1987 printing
Originally published: London : Constable, 1921
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) is a 1921 series of five plays and a preface by George Bernard Shaw. The five plays are:
In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden); The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day; The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170; Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A.D. 3000; As Far as Thought Can Reach: A.D. 31,920
The plays were published with a preface titled The Infidel Half Century, and first performed in 1922 by the New York Theatre Guild at the Garrick Theatre.
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