Back to Methuselah
by George Bernard Shaw
450 pages~8 hrs
“To master the world, humanity must first learn to outlive its own mortality.”
Travel from the dawn of creation to a future beyond imagination in George Bernard Shaw’s epic cycle about the quest for human immortality. Discover a world where living for centuries is the only way to master the complex art of governance and ensure the survival of civilization.
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