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- 1987
- year of publication
- 320
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- penguin_classics
- ISBN-13
- 978-01-4045-014-9
- EAN
- 9780140450149
- Publication date
- 1987-12-10
- Book
- Back to Methuselah · 2 editions
The publisher on this edition
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.
