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

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Irrational Knot

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    by Bernard Shaw ...
    George Bernard Shaw's The Irrational Knot opens with a brilliantly self-mocking preface in which the author treats his younger self as a vanished stranger, riffing on rejection, publication, memory, and identity with characteristic wit. From there he unfolds the novel's true concerns: the machinery of money, class, and social power, and the comic absurdities of a rapidly modernizing world. Drawing ... Read more

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  • The Impossibilities of Anarchism

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    by Bernard Shaw ...
    Bernard Shaw's sharp Fabian essay takes anarchism seriously enough to test it against the hard facts of politics. With wit and irony, he contrasts Social-Democrats and Anarchists, exposing the quarrels of socialist circles, the distortions of newspaper labels, and the danger of mistaking rigid principle for workable reform. He argues that while anarchists rightly denounce the corruption of law, ... Read more

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  • The Inca of Perusalem

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    by Bernard Shaw ...
    George Bernard Shaw's The Inca of Perusalem is a wartime satire that turns imperial pomp, patriotic myth, and social pretension into sparkling comedy. It opens with a prologue defending the right to mock enemies in time of war, then introduces impoverished aristocrats, hotel staff reduced by economic collapse, and a princess so sheltered she barely understands the modern world. Against this ... 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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  • 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 Masterpieces of World Literature

    150 Books You Should Read Before You Die: Romeo and Juliet, Emma, Vanity Fair, Middlemarch, Tom Sawyer, Faust, Notre Dame de Paris, Dubliners, Odyssey

    by 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, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Kahlil Gibran, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Lewis Wallace, L. M. Montgomery, Homer, 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, Plato ...
    e-artnow presents to you this grand collection of the greatest masterpieces ever written: British: Hamlet Romeo and Juliet Macbeth Paradise Lost Odes The Waste Land Ode to the West Wind Gulliver's Travels Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders The History of Tom Jones Tristram Shandy Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Emma Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Tenant of Wildfell Hall Vanity Fair Middlemarch ... 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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