伟大的現实主义剧作家萧伯納于1856年7月26日生在爱尔蘭都伯林市一个破落的大家庭里。父亲爱喝酒,母亲爱音乐,萧则处于几乎无人照管的情况之下,自幼的贫穷生活深刻地印在心头,使他后来在戏剧里擅长于描绘“落魄的紳士们”。十五岁进一个房地产经紀人的商号里做小伙計,天天帮人算帐,五年的青春就这样消磨过去了。1876年,二十岁时,萧才离开爱尔蘭,到倫敦去与早已在那里靠教唱歌过活的母亲住在一起。那正是英国资本主义的危机逐渐加深的时候。青年萧伯納寻不着工作,虽然依母为生,也常有身上不名一文、甚至连饭也吃不上的时候。他开始写起小说来,陆续写了五部,却寻不着一个书店愿意替他出版。在这些最初 George Bernard Shaw, the great realist playwright, was born on 26 July 1856 in a dilapidated extended family in Dublin, Ireland. His father loved to drink, his mother loved music, and Xiao was in the almost unattended situation. His impoverished life was deeply impressed by his childhood, and later he was good at portraying “fallen gentlemen” in the drama. Fifteen years old into a real estate agent’s business to do a small man, every day to help people account for five years of youth so worn over. In 1876, at the age of twenty, she left Ireland and went to London to live with her mother who had been singing and singing there already. That is exactly when the crisis of British capitalism has deepened. The young Bernard Shaw can not find work, although according to the mother for a living, there is often anonymous article, even when the food can not eat. He began to write novels, one after another wrote five, but could not find a bookstore is willing to publish for him. In these first