The Irrational Knot

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Bernard Shaw. The Irrational Knot

The Irrational Knot

Table of Contents

PREFACE

TO THE AMERICAN EDITION OF 1905

BOOK I

THE IRRATIONAL KNOT

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

BOOK II

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

BOOK III

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

THE WATERS OF MARAH, BY ELINOR MCQUINCH

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

BOOK IV

CHAPTER XVIII

"MARIAN."

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

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Bernard Shaw

Being the Second Novel of His Nonage

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Miss Lind, in spite of her sensible views as to talking shop, was not interested in the least. "Indeed!" she said. "How interesting that must be! But how did you find time to become so perfect a musician, and to sing so exquisitely?"

"I picked most of it up when I was a boy. My grandfather was an Irish sailor with such a tremendous voice that a Neapolitan music master brought him out in opera as a buffo. When he had roared his voice away, he went into the chorus. My father was reared in Italy, and looked more Italian than most genuine natives. He had no voice; so he became first accompanist, then chorus master, and finally trainer for the operatic stage. He speculated in an American tour; married out there; lost all his money; and came over to England, when I was only twelve, to resume his business at Covent Garden. I stayed in America, and was apprenticed to an electrical engineer. I worked at the bench there for six years."

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