The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Irrational Knot, by George Bernard ShawThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His NonageAuthor: George Bernard ShawRelease Date: February 28, 2004 [EBook #11354]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE IRRATIONAL KNOT ***Produced by Rick Niles, John Hagerson and PG Distributed ProofreadersTHE IRRATIONAL KNOTBY BERNARD SHAW BEINGTHE SECOND NOVEL OF HIS NONAGE1905PREFACETO THE AMERICAN EDITION OF 1905This novel was written in the year 1880, only a few years after I had exported myself from Dublin to London in a conditionof extreme rawness and inexperience concerning the specifically English side of the life with which the book pretends todeal. Everybody wrote novels then. It was my second attempt; and it shared the fate of my first. That is to say, nobodywould publish it, though I tried all the London publishers and some American ones. And I should not greatly blame them ifI could feel sure that it was the book's faults and not its qualities that repelled them.I have narrated elsewhere how in the course of time the rejected MS. became Mrs. Annie Besant's excuse for lending meher ever helping hand by publishing it as a serial in a little ...