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Written at the height of the first World War in Europe, an impassioned satire of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century bourgeoisie offers a scathing portrait of a household of independent eccentrics. Reissue.
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Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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- PublisherSignet Classics
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0451526139
- ISBN 13 9780451526137
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages160
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paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. New York. 1996. February 1996. Signet/New American Library. 1st Printing of This Signet Classic Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451526139. Introduction by Daniel J. Leary. 138 pages. paperback. CE2613. Cover: Augustus John-'Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, ca. 1914'. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback Drama Ireland Literature England. DESCRIPTION - HEARTBREAK HOUSE reveals the great George Bernard Shaw in all his many guises: playwright of ideas, master of comedy, maker of epigrams, teacher, critic, philosopher, poet. A devastating commentary on World War I and a scathing portrait of British upper-class life, the play presents a world of moral and spiritual blight. Influenced by Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Shaw set HEARTBREAK HOUSE in a country manor. Shaw's mansion, however, is shaped like a ship and run by an eccentric eighty-eight-year-old sea captain, Captain Shotover. During one weekend party, this house is filled with a group of relatives and guests who form liaisons and love affairs while commenting nonstop on politics, economics, desire, war, education, religion, and science. With each of the characters assuming allegorical significance, the play details the disintegration of a society from within - its final collapse caused by forces it had previously ignored of denied. A brilliant social satire combining comedy, tragedy, and prophecy, HEARTBREAK HOUSE stands among Shaw's masterpieces and remains an incomparable dramatic classic. inventory #33556. Seller Inventory # z33556
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