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  • Pygmalion

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    Pygmalion was written by George Bernard Shaw and first published in 1913. It is the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In the process, Higgins and ... Read more

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  • Pygmalion

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    George Bernard Shaw based his 1913 play "Pygmalion" on the Greek legend of the sculptor, Pygmalion. According to the classic tale, Pygmalion despised women but fell in love with his own sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite. He appeals to Aphrodite to give his statue life. She answers his prayer, and Pygmalion marries his creation.Shaw’s play takes place in Victorian London, where Henry Higgins, a ... Read more

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  • Saint Joan

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    Saint Joan is a 1923 play written by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw depicting the life of Joan of Arc and first published in 1923. ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of George Bernard Shaw (Delphi Classics)

    by George Bernard Shaw, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 4 - Delphi Series Five
    George Bernard Shaw created pioneering dramas that probed prevailing social problems with a vein of comedy that made their stark themes more palatable, while striving to make the world aware of the exploitation of the working classes. For the first time in digital publishing, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete fictional works of George Bernard Shaw, with every play, novel and short ... Read more

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  • Arms and the Man

    by Bernard Shaw ...
    Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the Swiss soldier who begs her to hide him a terrible coward. After the war she reverses her opinions, though the tangle of relationships must be resolved before her ex-soldier can conclude the last of ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Book Club: 180 Books You Should Read (Vol.1)

    Enriched edition. Leaves of Grass, Siddhartha, Middlemarch, The Jungle, Macbeth, Moby-Dick, A Study in Scarlet…

    by Walt Whitman, Herman Hesse, George Eliot, Kahlil Gibran, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gogol, James Joyce, Henry David Thoreau0, William Shakespeare1, T. S. Eliot2, John Keats3, Charles Baudelaire4, Sir Walter Scott5, Daniel Defoe6, Louisa May Alcott7, Jane Austen8, Charlotte Brontë9, Emily Brontë0, Anne Brontë1, Leo Tolstoy2, Benito Pérez Galdós3, William Makepeace Thackeray4, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos5, R.D. Blackmore6, Alexandre Dumas7, Marcel Proust8, D. H. Lawrence9, Charles Dickens0, Thomas Hardy1, Henry James2, Guy de Maupassant3, Princess Der Ling4, Victor Hugo5, Juan Valera6, Anthony Trollope7, Stephen Crane8, E. M. Forster9, Theodore Dreiser0, Margaret Cavendish1, Upton Sinclair2, Plato3, Apuleius4, Marcus Aurelius5, Sun Tzu6, Voltaire7, Miguel de Cervantes8, Giovanni Boccaccio9, Frederick Douglass0, Sigmund Freud1, H. A. Lorentz2, Wallace D. Wattles3, James Allen4, Agatha Christie5, Arthur Conan Doyle6, Joseph Conrad7, H. P. Lovecraft8, Washington Irving9, Mary Shelley0, H. G. Wells1, Edgar Allan Poe2, Ernest Hemingway3, L. Frank Baum4, Robert Louis Stevenson5, Mark Twain6, Selma Lagerlöf7, Jack London8, Jules Verne9, Lewis Carroll0, Frances Hodgson Burnett1, Rudyard Kipling2, Edgar Rice Burroughs3, Hans Christian Andersen4, George Bernard Shaw5, Soseki Natsume6, Johann Wolfgang Goethe7, Hunter Reeves0 ...
    The Ultimate Book Club: 180 Books You Should Read (Vol.1) beautifully captures the essence of diversity in thought, style, and expression, spanning centuries and continents. This anthology brings together an eclectic mix of pivotal works that have shaped the literary landscape, orchestrated to illuminate the human condition and the relentless quest for understanding and interpretation. From the ... Read more

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  • Works Of George Bernard Shaw: (30+ Works). Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Candida, The Irrational Knot, An Unsocial Socialist & More (Mobi Collected Works)

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and plays. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a ... Read more

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  • Arms And The Man (Mobi Classics)

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw. Its title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid: "Arma virumque cano" (Of arms and the man I sing). (Perseus Project A.1.1) The play was first produced on April 21, 1894 at the Avenue Theatre, and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume, which also included Candida, You Never Can Tell, and The Man of Destiny. The play ... Read more

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  • The Bucket List Edition: The Greatest Classics in One Volume

    Leaves of Grass, Siddhartha, Dubliners, Les Misérables, Don Quixote, Art of War, Middlemarch, Swann's Way…

    by Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Kahlil Gibran, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, William Makepeace Thackeray, P. B. Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth von Arnim, D. H. Lawrence, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, C. S. Lewis, George Weedon Grossmith, H. G. Wells, Willkie Collins, G. K. Chesterton, E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Grahame, George MacDonald, J. M. Barrie, Mark Twain, Jack London, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Lewis WallaceL., M. Montgomery, Homer, Plato, Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Hesse, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jules Verne, Marcel Proust, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Gaston Leroux, Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal, Voltaire, Charles Baudelaire, Alexandre Dumas, Emile Zola, Henrik Ibsen, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Miguel de Cervantes, Benito Pérez Galdós, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dante, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli, Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Kalidasa, Válmíki, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Confucius, Cao Xueqin, Princess Der Ling, Inazo Nitobé, Kakuzo Okakura, Soseki Natsume, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Dean Howells, Washington Irving, L. Frank Baum, Theodor Storm, Juan Valera, Rudyard Kipling ...
    'The Bucket List Edition: The Greatest Classics in One Volume' offers a monumental gathering of canonical texts, presenting a breathtaking array of literary styles, thematic explorations, and epoch-defining wisdom. This anthology spans centuries and continents, weaving together the works of figures like Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Tagore, alongside those of Hesse and Hawthorne. Such diversity allows ... Read more

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  • Major Barbara

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on his right, Lady Britomart's writing table, with the lady herself busy at it; a smaller writing table behind him on his left; the door ... Read more

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  • The Perfect Wagnerite: a Commentary on the Niblung's Ring

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    According to the Preface: "This book is a commentary on The Ring of the Niblungs, Wagner's chief work. I offer it to those enthusiastic admirers of Wagner who are unable to follow his ideas, and do not in the least understand the dilemma of Wotan, though they are filled with indignation at the irreverence of the Philistines who frankly avow that they find the remarks of the god too often tedious ... Read more

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  • Pygmalion

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    “The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They cannot spell it because they have nothing to spell it with but an old foreign alphabet of which only the consonants – and not all of them – have any agreed speech value.After a chance meeting with fellow linguist Colonel Pickering, phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can pass off ... Read more

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