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George Bernard Shaw Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes (Penguin plays & screenplays)
Penguin (Non-Classics) 1965 0140480536 / 9780140480535 Paperback Very Good
"Paperback, Very Good , one light crease on spine, no cover creases or wear, no soiling, clean, tight, unmarked, 160 pages.() When Ellie Dunn joins a house-party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for money rather than love, and the Captain's forthright daughter Hesione protests vigorously against the pragmatic young woman's choice. Opinion on the matter quickly divides and a lively argument about money and morality, idealism and realism ensues as Hesione's rakish husband, snobbish sister and Ellie's fiance a wealthy industrialist enter the debate. Written between 1916 and 1917 as war raged across Europe, Heartbreak House is a telling indictment of the generation responsible for the First World War. With its bold combination of high farce and bitter tragedy, Shaw's play remains an uncannily prophetic depiction of a society on the threshold of an abrupt awakening. ID: mon0000000651"
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George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara (Penguin plays & screenplays)
Penguin (Non-Classics) 1981 0140480072 / 9780140480078 Mass Market Paperback Like New
"Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases() Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into her work as a Major in the Salvation Army, and sees her father as another soul to be saved. But when the Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day with a large cheque forcing Barbara to examine her moral assumptions. Are they right to accept money that has been obtained by Death and Destruction'? Full of lively comedy and sparkling debate, Major Barbara is one of Shaw's most forward-looking plays, brilliantly testing the tensions between religion, wealth and power, benevolence and equality, and metaphors and realities of war. ID: mon0000021222"
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