Cashel Byron`s Profession, 9781848547476
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Famous fighter meets cultured lady: a knockout romantic miscommunication.

Cashel Byron`s Profession

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    12 November 2012

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Summary

After poleaxing his mathematics master with a perfect right, Cashel Byron, the unloved son of a successful actress, runs away to Australia. He returns to England and becomes the most famous prizefighter of his age, only to be floored himself by the lovely and impossible Lydia Carew.

Can Lydia, with her reputation for vast learning and exquisite culture, be wooed by the ruffian Cashel? Can Cashel successfully hide his illegal profession? And so follows, with Shaw’s inimitable wit and s…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781848547476
ISBN-10:1848547471
Author:George Bernard Shaw
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:John Murray Publishers Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:12 November 2012
Weight:280g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 24mm
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Genuine and remarkable narrative talent…a talent of strength, spirit, capacity…It is all mad, mad and deliriously delightful…All I ask is more of it

Genuine and remarkable narrative talent…a talent of strength, spirit, capacity…It is all mad, mad and deliriously delightful…All I ask is more of it - Robert Louis Stevenson

About The Author

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856, moving to London in 1876. His other written novels were IMMATURITY, THE IRRATIONAL KNOT, LOVE AMONG THE ARTISTS and AN UNSOCIAL SOCIALIST. In 1925 Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He refused a peerage and the Order of Merit from the first Labour Government. He died in 1950.

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