# Back to Methuselah

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- Authors: [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-bernard-shaw)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1987-12-10

## Description

Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) is a 1921 series of five plays and a preface by George Bernard Shaw. The five plays are: In the Beginning: B. C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden); The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day; The Thing Happens: A. D. 2170; Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A. D. 3000; As Far as Thought Can Reach: A. D. 31,920 The plays were published with a preface titled The Infidel Half Century, and first performed in 1922 by the New York Theatre Guild at the Garrick Theatre.

## Editions

### Back to Methuselah

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4045-014-9
- Pages: 320
- Published: 1987-12-10
- Language: en_GB

### Back to Methuselah

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-367-9
- Published: 1987-12-10
- Language: en_GB