He has very few works of fiction
The majority of Shaw's writing, which was published between 1879 and 1885, consists of five unpopular novels. Immaturity (1879), described by Weintraub as "His Own David Copperfield," is a semi-autobiographical depiction of mid-Victorian England. Weintraub criticizes common marriage in The Irrational Knot (1880), finding "essentially naught more than animated theories" in its lifeless qualities.
Shaw felt that his third book, Love Between Artists (1881), was a turning point in his intellectual growth, even if it wasn't any more successful than his earlier works. Shaw's first full-length play, Mrs. Warren's Occupation, which premiered in 1882, was foreshadowed by an indictment of society in The Occupation of Cashel Byron Weintraub Speaks (1882).
Shaw went on to say that he had planned for A Non-Socialist Socialism to be the opening act of a grand narrative about the demise of capitalism. In a study of Shaw's political philosophy, Gareth Griffith finds the book to be a fascinating description of the social and political climate of the 1880s socialist movement.
The Black Girl's Adventures in Search of God, which was written by Shaw in 1932 while on a trip to South Africa, was the only book Shaw ever wrote after that. The girl with the same name, who was intelligent, inquisitive, and converted to Christianity through a pointless missionary upbringing, ventured off in quest of God. Her trip ended in secularism after several adventures and interactions.
