Beautiful Monster: A young George Bernard Shaw, brand new to London, fights and claws to make his mark as a novelist, passionately speechifying on behalf of socialism and flirting mercilessly with every married woman he encounters. An iconoclastic and humorous look at the legendary playwright on his bruising journey to literary legend. Beautiful Monster ends as GBS is on the brink of his first great success. This is the story of a struggling artist and how his climb to immortality was anything but inevitable.