Sidney Trefusis, a wealthy young man, walks out on his new wife to devote himself to socialism, and turns up as Smilash, a cockney odd-job man, beside a select ladies’ college in the English countryside. Disrupting the pupils, the landowners and every polite assumption, he lectures anyone who will listen on capital and exploitation.
The last and liveliest of Shaw’s five early novels, an essay in comic provocation before he turned to the stage. Download the free EPUB.