An Unsocial Socialist is George Bernard Shaw's early novel of class criticism, comic disguise, marriage, and political argument. The story follows Sidney Trefusis, a wealthy man who abandons conventional domestic life and tries to live according to socialist principles, while the surrounding world of schools, courtship, and respectability exposes its own contradictions.
The book is less polished than Shaw's best-known drama, but it is full of the provocations that would define his career. Socialism is not treated as a slogan; it becomes a test of comfort, property, gender roles, and personal vanity. Readers interested in early socialist fiction, Victorian satire, ideological comedy, and Shaw's development as a dramatist and polemicist will find An Unsocial Socialist historically valuable.
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