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  • Pygmalion

    A Brilliant Classic That Remains Strikingly Relevant TodayPygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is one of the most celebrated plays of modern English literature, a brilliant comedy of manners that explores language, class, identity, education, and social transformation with wit and intelligence.Shaw based his 1913 play on the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion, the sculptor who despised women but fell ... Read more

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  • Back To Methuselah

    George Bernard Shaw published this series of five linked plays in a single volume in 1921. It was first performed in 1922 in New York. We begin in the year 4004 BC. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve discover death, and a serpent teaches them what it is to conceive new life. It is the early twentieth century. The brothers Barnabas are discussing the political need for people to live for three ... Read more

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  • Mrs. Warren’s Profession

    George Bernard Shaw was a prolific Irish playwright who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925. Shaw’s famous plays include Man and Superman and Pygmalion which was adapted into the classic musical My Fair Lady. This edition of Mrs. Warren’s Profession includes a table of contents. ... Read more

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  • The Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays & Letters of George Bernard Shaw

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Wit and Wisdom of a Literary Icon

    In "The Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays & Letters of George Bernard Shaw," the reader is presented with a rich tapestry of Shaw's intellect and wit, encapsulating a lifetime of critique and commentary on society, politics, and the human condition. Ranging from his incisive articles on social reform to thought-provoking essays on art and culture, this collection mirrors Shaw's distinctive ... Read more

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  • Heartbreak House

    This vintage book contains George Bernard Shaw's 1919 play, "Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes". Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé attend one of Hesione Hushabye's notorious dinner parties. However, Ellie's partner is a rake, her father is an idiot, and she has amorous feelings for Hesione's husband. It is an adventurous farrago of comedy, tragedy, and ... Read more

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  • Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes

    Heartbreak House is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. A Russian playwright, Tchekov, had produced four fascinating dramatic studies of ... Read more

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  • Great Catherine

    Whom Glory Still Adores

    Series series Bernard Shaw Library
    Captain Charles Edstaston is assigned to the Imperial Russian court in Saint Petersburg, during the 34-year rule of Empress Catherine the Great, and brings his fiancee, Claire, with him. In the midst of court intrigue and palace politics, primarily instigated by Catherine's favored statesman and military leader, the drunken, ill-mannered, but crafty Prince Patiomkin. ... Read more

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  • Heartbreak House

    by George Shaw ...
    Series series Bernard Shaw Library
    "Heartbreak House" by George Bernard Shaw is a captivating and satirical play that explores the state of British society on the brink of World War I. Set in the idyllic country estate of Captain Shotover, the play introduces audiences to a cast of eccentric characters, each representing different aspects of society and human nature. The plot revolves around the visit of Ellie Dunn, a young woman ... Read more

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  • Pygmalion

    A Play

    The most successful play by the Nobel Prize–winning Irish playwright, and basis for the movie and Broadway musical My Fair Lady.Based on the Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, George Bernard Shaw's witty adaptation features linguistic expert Professor Henry Higgins, who encounters a cockney flower seller named Eliza Doolittle. Boasting that he could pass Eliza off as a duchess by teaching her ... Read more

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  • Pygmalion

    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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  • Major Barbara

    Major Barbara is a 1905 play by George Bernard Shaw. Andrew Undershaft, a wealthy weapons trader, despises poverty believing "The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty ... our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor". His daughter, Barbara, devotes herself to charity. When a shelter for the poor is at risk of closure due to lack ... Read more

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  • Classic European Plays

    Saint Joan, An Ideal Husband, and A Doll's House

    These three timeless plays showcase the sparkling wit and provocative intellect of some of modern drama's greatest playwrights.Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw: This complex drama depicts the life of Joan of Arc—from her childhood vision calling her to lead the French army against the English in the Hundred Years War through her eventual capture, trial, and burning at the stake. An epilogue ... Read more

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