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  • Back to Methuselah
    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw begins with a radical proposition: what if humanity’s greatest problem is that human beings simply do not live long enough to become wise?In Back to Methuselah, Shaw transforms that question into an extraordinary cycle of five plays spanning thousands of years. Beginning with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and moving through Shaw’s own era into an increa...
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    20,51 €

  • Misalliance
    George Bernard Shaw
    An unexpected airplane crash, a house full of strong personalities, and a rapidly shifting tangle of attraction and argument set the stage for one of George Bernard Shaw’s most spirited comedies.At the country home of wealthy underwear manufacturer John Tarleton, an apparently ordinary summer afternoon is already complicated. Tarleton’s daughter Hypatia is engaged to the aristo...
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    12,55 €

  • Getting Married
    George Bernard Shaw
    A wedding is about to take place-but before anyone gets married, George Bernard Shaw wants to know whether marriage itself makes any sense.On the morning of Edith Bridgenorth’s wedding to Cecil Sykes, family and friends gather at the home of the Bishop of Chelsea. What should be a conventional celebration quickly becomes something far more complicated. Around the prospective br...
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    14,81 €

  • Man and Superman
    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman is an ambitious philosophical comedy that turns courtship, marriage, politics, and human evolution into a dazzling contest of ideas. Published in 1903, the play combines Shaw’s characteristic wit with an expansive examination of freedom, desire, social convention, and the forces that shape human destiny.At the center of the play is John Ta...
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    18,35 €

  • You Never Can Tell
    George Bernard Shaw
    You Never Can Tell is one of George Bernard Shaw’s most charming and playful comedies, a sparkling story of romance, family secrets, generational conflict, and the delightful unpredictability of human nature.Set in a seaside town, the play follows Mrs. Clandon and her three independent-minded children as they return to England after years abroad. Raised with modern ideas and li...
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    12,47 €

  • Candida
    George Bernard Shaw
    Candida is George Bernard Shaw’s sharp, witty, and quietly subversive comedy about love, marriage, idealism, and the illusions people create around the ones they adore.At the center of the play is Candida Morell, the intelligent and self-possessed wife of Reverend James Morell, a popular clergyman whose confidence in his work, his marriage, and his own moral strength seems unsh...
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    11,30 €

  • The Doctor’s Dilemma
    George Bernard Shaw
    When a doctor has the power to save only one life, how should he decide who deserves to live?Sir Colenso Ridgeon has developed a promising new treatment for tuberculosis, offering hope to patients once considered beyond saving. But his resources are limited, and he can accept only a small number of cases. When two very different men urgently need his care, Ridgeon is forced int...
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    14,81 €

  • The Apple Cart
    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw turns politics into a brilliant battle of wits in The Apple Cart, a provocative comedy about monarchy, democracy, corporate power, and the question of who truly governs.In a future Britain, King Magnus finds himself confronted by Prime Minister Proteus and a cabinet determined to reduce the monarchy to little more than a ceremonial institution. Magnus, howev...
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    13,82 €

  • Fanny’s First Play
    George Bernard Shaw
    A young woman has written her first play. Her father has invited some of London’s leading theater critics to see it. There’s only one condition: they aren’t allowed to know who wrote it.That is the mischievous frame George Bernard Shaw constructs for Fanny’s First Play, a comedy that turns its attention not only toward respectable society but toward the theatrical world respons...
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    12,60 €

  • Major Barbara
    George Bernard Shaw
    Major Barbara Undershaft has devoted herself to saving souls and fighting poverty through her work with the Salvation Army. Her estranged father, Andrew Undershaft, has built an immense fortune manufacturing weapons. To Barbara, his wealth represents everything her faith should oppose. To Undershaft, poverty-not money-is the greatest evil, and good intentions mean little withou...
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    13,67 €

  • Arms and the Man
    George Bernard Shaw
    Love. War. Heroism. George Bernard Shaw turns them all upside down in this witty and enduring comedy of romantic ideals.When an exhausted Swiss soldier fleeing the battlefield climbs through the bedroom window of Raina Petkoff, he shatters nearly everything she believes about courage and war. Raina has been raised on stories of glorious battles, noble sacrifice, and heroic sold...
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    12,66 €

  • The Man of Destiny
    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw turns the young Napoleon Bonaparte into the center of a sharp and entertaining battle of wits in The Man of Destiny.Set in Italy during Napoleon’s early military career, the play begins when an important packet of dispatches is stolen from a French lieutenant by a mysterious stranger. The missing papers soon become Napoleon’s concern, but recovering them pro...
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    10,80 €

  • Saint Joan
    George Bernard Shaw
    A young woman hears a call that will change the fate of a nation-and place her in conflict with the most powerful institutions of her age.Joan is a teenage peasant girl from rural France, yet she possesses an extraordinary certainty about her purpose. Convinced that divine voices have commanded her to help restore the rightful king and drive the English from French territory, s...
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    14,85 €

  • Mrs. Warren’s Profession
    George Bernard Shaw
    How much of a person’s life is shaped by choice-and how much by the opportunities society allows them to have?Vivie Warren has built her future on intelligence, education, and independence. Practical, disciplined, and determined to make her own way in the world, she believes success comes through hard work and personal integrity. But when she begins to uncover the truth behind ...
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    13,86 €

  • Pygmalion
    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is a brilliant comedy of language, class, identity, and the assumptions people make about one another.Eliza Doolittle is a poor London flower seller whose strong Cockney accent immediately marks her social position. Professor Henry Higgins, a brilliant but arrogant expert in phonetics, boasts that by changing the way Eliza speaks, he could pass h...
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    13,84 €

  • Killing for Sport
    Bernard Shaw / Henry S. Salt
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Killing for Sport pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Killing For Sport: Essays By Various Writers' delves into the complex moral and ethical dimensions of hunting. This thought-provoking collection explores diverse perspectives on the age-old practice, raisin...
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    26,21 €

  • Treatise on Parents and Children (Cram Edition)
    Bernard Shaw
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Treatise on Parents and Children pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.George Bernard Shaw’s 'A Treatise on Parents and Children' offers a sharp and insightful exploration of family dynamics and the evolving relationship between parent and child. A keen social co...
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    25,29 €

  • The Perfect Wagnerite
    Bernard Shaw
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Perfect Wagnerite pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.George Bernard Shaw’s 'The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring' offers a compelling and insightful analysis of Richard Wagner’s epic opera cycle. Shaw, renowned for his sharp wit and cr...
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    23,22 €

  • An Unsocial Socialist (Cram Edition)
    Bernard Shaw
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of An Unsocial Socialist pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.George Bernard Shaw’s 'An Unsocial Socialist' offers a compelling exploration of socialist ideals through the lens of satire and social commentary. This thought-provoking work delves into the complexitie...
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    26,05 €

  • O’Flaherty V.C.
    Bernard Shaw
    A battered recruiting office, the sharp scent of uniforms and ink, and the restless shuffle of men caught between duty and doubt-this is the charged atmosphere in which a sharp-witted Irish soldier finds himself at the heart of a world war one drama. With biting wit and a keen eye for hypocrisy, this military satire play exposes the uneasy dance between patriotism and personal ...
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    16,17 €

  • Fabian Essays in Socialism (Cram Edition)
    Annie Besant / Bernard Shaw / Hubert Bland
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Fabian Essays in Socialism pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Fabian Essays in Socialism' offers a foundational exploration of Fabianism and its impact on Great Britain’s social and economic landscape. Authored under the guidance of George Bernard Shaw, this ...
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    27,04 €

  • Man and Superman
    Bernard Shaw
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.George Bernard Shaw’s 'Man And Superman' is a cornerstone of English drama and a brilliant example of modern comedic satire. This play, a celebrated work of English literature, expl...
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    25,30 €

  • Heartbreak House
    Bernard Shaw
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Heartbreak House pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.George Bernard Shaw’s 'Heartbreak House' is a witty and insightful drama offering sharp social commentary on English society in the early 20th century. A masterful example of satire, the play explores the soc...
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    21,01 €

  • On the Prospects of Christianity
    Bernard Shaw
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of On the Prospects of Christianity pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.George Bernard Shaw’s 'Preface to Androcles and the Lion' delves into the complexities of Christianity, religion, and morality. As a preface to his drama, Shaw uses his sharp wit and intellect...
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    25,17 €

  • The Doctor’s Dilemma
    Bernard Shaw
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Doctor’s Dilemma pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.George Bernard Shaw’s 'The Doctor’s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors' is a compelling drama exploring the complex ethics and moral quandaries faced by physicians. This thought-provoking work utilizes sharp sat...
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    20,98 €

  • Getting Married (Cram Edition)
    Bernard Shaw
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Getting Married pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.George Bernard Shaw’s 'Getting Married' offers a witty and insightful social commentary on the institution of marriage. Set against the backdrop of the Victorian era, this comedic drama delves into the complex...
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    26,94 €

  • The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet (Cram Edition)
    Bernard Shaw
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.George Bernard Shaw’s 'The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet' is a powerful drama set against the backdrop of the American West. More than just a Western, it functions as a compelling morality play, ...
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    23,19 €

  • Cashel Byron’s Profession (Cram Edition)
    Bernard Shaw
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Cashel Byron’s Profession pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Cashel Byron’s Profession' by George Bernard Shaw offers a fascinating glimpse into the Victorian era through the unexpected lens of prize fighting. This satirical novel blends the worlds of boxing ...
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    26,19 €

  • The Irrational Knot
    Bernard Shaw
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Irrational Knot pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The Irrational Knot,' by George Bernard Shaw, explores the complexities of marriage and social class in Victorian England. Subtitled 'Being the Second Novel of His Nonage,' this satirical work delves into...
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    27,92 €

  • Back to Methuselah
    Bernard Shaw
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Back to Methuselah pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.George Bernard Shaw’s 'Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch' is a landmark work of British drama and science fiction, exploring profound questions of human existence and evolution. This ambitious...
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    29,87 €


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