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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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  • 180 Masterpieces You Should Read Before You Die (Vol.2)

    Timeless Classics and Revolutionary Works: Masterpieces of Literature's Greatest Minds

    by Virginia Woolf, P. B. Shelley, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Honoré de Balzac, Jane Austen, L. M. Montgomery, Kenneth Grahame, Rabindranath Tagore, George Weedon Grossmith, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daniel Defoe, Jules Verne, Jonathan Swift, James Fenimore Cooper, George MacDonald, J. M. Barrie, Alexandre Dumas, Homer, Benito Pérez Galdós, Dante, William Dean Howells, Kakuzo Okakura, Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Stendhal, John Buchan, Edgar Wallace, William Walker Atkinson, Émile Coué, G. K. Chesterton, D.H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Walter Scott, Anthony Trollope, Emile Zola, Theodor Storm, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Fielding, Jerome K. Jerome, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Sinclair Lewis, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry James, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Benjamin Franklin, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Edgar Allan Poe, Willkie Collins, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Gaston Leroux, H. G. Wells, Lewis Wallace, Washington Irving, Machiavelli, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Confucius, Laozi, John Milton, W. B. Yeats, Elizabeth von Arnim, Cao Xueqin ...
    Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the great works of the greatest masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving poetry of words and storylines every person should experience in their lifetime: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) A Tale of Two Cities ... Read more

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  • Saint Joan

    A chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue

    by Bernard Shaw ...
    Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan (1923) dramatizes the trial and martyrdom of Joan of Arc with intellectual vigor, moral irony, and striking theatrical economy. Neither conventional tragedy nor pious hagiography, the play recasts Joan as a figure of prophetic individuality whose spiritual certainty collides with the political and ecclesiastical institutions of fifteenth-century Europe. Shaw's lucid, ... Read more

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  • The intelligent woman's guide to socialism and capitalism

    by Bernard Shaw ...
    In The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, Bernard Shaw offers a lucid yet provocative exposition of modern political economy, written as much to unsettle complacency as to instruct. Framed as an accessible guide, the book examines capitalism, socialism, property, labor, class, and the state with argumentative wit and intellectual confidence. Its style is characteristically ... 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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