This reissue makes available one of the early works of George Bernard Shaw: a galloping, witty novel with a wealth of pertinent things to say about the creaking class system and men's and women's attempts to find a human and interesting way to live together. The book was written in 1883 and later revised by Shaw for inclusion in the 1932 Standard Edition, from which the present text is taken.

"Alphabetical Order: A Melofarce in Two Acts" is a contra-PC look at the simultaneous farce and melodrama that is higher education in America. It uses the extremes of the classroom absurdities from the 1970s on to dramatize the highly comic standoff among teachers, students, and administrators at all times and in all places that always ends in the same old shootout, never mind polite appearances.

Professor Dog, President Staffuk and the campus cops, and the know-it-all, mind-of-their-own, not-interested-in-education students, led by the voluptuous, mini-skirted, make-love-not-war Eve Alpha...

"Reverend Steve" wonders why God makes sexy girls, since they are so obviously rivals for men's adoration. To find the answer, he has to get pregnant and deliver a baby.

"Reverend Steve" wonders why God makes sexy girls, since they are so obviously rivals for men's adoration. To find the answer, he has to get pregnant and deliver a baby. If you're not up to that, try just reading the novel.