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  • Fabian Essays in Socialism
    George Bernard Shaw
    Britain’s Fabian Society was founded in 1884 to promote non-Marxist evolutionary socialism, and later laid the foundations for the nation’s Labour Party. These educational essays, adapted from a series of lectures delivered in 1889 and published the following year, serve not only as an introductory course in democratic applications of socialism but also as a primer in the histo...
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    30,23 €

  • Geneva
    Bernard Shaw / George Bernard Shaw
    This satirical and controversial 1938 comedy takes an irreverent look at global politics - at a time when Europe was teetering on the brink of the Second World War. A German Jew arrives in Geneva, Switzerland, hoping to find answers to what is happening in his country. He starts an avalanche of events culminating in a judge presiding over a hearing at the Court of International...
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    39,43 €

  • Saint Joan
    Bernard Shaw / George Bernard Shaw
    This volume contains Bernard Shaw’s 1924 play, 'Saint Joan'. It is a ’chronicle play’ in six scenes, and an epilogue that revolves around Joan of Arc. It elucidates her immense personality, problems, and potential. As well as the play itself, Shaw also furnishes a number of chapters on Joan of Arc that offer interesting insights into her life and character. This interesting and...
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    33,83 €

  • Heartbreak House
    Bernard Shaw / George Bernard Shaw
    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...
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    34,55 €

  • Mrs. Warren’s Profession
    George Bernard Shaw
    Middle-aged Mrs. Warren is a madam, proprietress of a string of successful brothels. Her daughter, Vivie, is a modern young woman, but not so modern that she’s not shocked to discover the source of her mother’s wealth. The clash of these two strong-willed but culturally constrained Victorian women is the spark that ignites the ironic wit of one of George Bernard Shaw’s greatest...
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    7,99 €

  • Fabian Essays In Socialism
    George Bernard Shaw
    ''Fabian Essays in Socialism'' is a collection of essays written by members of the Fabian Society, a socialist organization in the United Kingdom, including George Bernard Shaw. The essays explore various aspects of socialism, including its history, principles, and practical implementation. The authors argue that socialism is a more just and equitable system than capitalism, an...
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    33,49 €

  • An Unsocial Socialist
    George Bernard Shaw
    In the dusk of an October evening, a sensible looking woman of forty came out through an oaken door to a broad landing on the first floor of an old English country-house. A braid of her hair had fallen forward as if she had been stooping over book or pen; and she stood for a moment to smooth it, and to gaze contemplatively - not in the least sentimentally - through the tall, na...
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    30,05 €

  • Androcles and The Lion
    George Bernard Shaw
    Overture; forest sounds, roaring of lions, Christian hymn faintly. A jungle path. A lion’s roar, a melancholy suffering roar, comes from the jungle. It is repeated nearer. The lion limps from the jungle on three legs, holding up his right forepaw, in which a huge thorn sticks. He sits down and contemplates it. He licks it. He shakes it. He tries to extract it by scrapin...
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    31,10 €

  • Plays and Players - Essays on the Theatre
    Bernard Shaw / George Bernard Shaw
    This volume contains forty fascinating essays written by Bernard Shaw. Taken in combination, his essays aim to provide a representative cross-section of English theatre history in the late-nineteenth century. The first chapter explores Shaw’s skill as a critic, highlighting his extraordinary body of knowledge. The rest of the essays deal with such playwrights as Shakespeare, Ib...
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    33,12 €

  • A Treatise on Parents and Children
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Childhood is a stage in the process of that continual remanufacture of the Life Stuff by which the human race is perpetuated. The Life Force either will not or cannot achieve immortality except in very low orga...
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    30,78 €

  • Arms and the Man
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - To the irreverent - and which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification? - there is something very amusing in the attitude of the orthodox criticism toward Bernard Shaw. He so obvio...
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  • Candida
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - A fine October morning in the north east suburbs of London, a vast district many miles away from the London of Mayfair and St. James’s, much less known there than the Paris of the Rue de Rivoli and the Champs E...
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    31,10 €

  • Captain Brassbound’s Conversion
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a seaport on the west coast of Morocco, the missionary, in the coolness of the late afternoon, is following the precept of Voltaire by cultivating his garden. H...
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  • Fanny’s First Play
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Fanny’s First Play, being but a potboiler, needs no preface. But its lesson is not, I am sorry to say, unneeded. Mere morality, or the substitution of custom for conscience was once accounted a shameful and cyni...
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    30,98 €

  • Heartbreak House
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 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 diplo...
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  • John Bull’s Other Island
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr Lawrence Doyle and Mr Thomas Broadbent, and that their rooms are...
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    30,85 €

  • Major Barbara
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 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 ...
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  • Man and Superman
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - My dear Walkley: You once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day o...
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  • The Perfect Wagnerite
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In reading through this German version of my book in the Manuscript of my friend Siegfried Trebitsch, I was struck by the inadequacy of the merely negative explanation given by me of the irrelevance of Night Fa...
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  • The Philanderer
    George Bernard Shaw
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  • You Never Can Tell
    George Bernard Shaw
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  • Misalliance
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Johnny Tarleton, an ordinary young business man of thirty or less, is taking his weekly Friday to Tuesday in the house of his father, John Tarleton, who has made a great deal of money out of Tarleton’s Underwea...
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  • The Devil’s Disciple
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts o...
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  • Heartbreak House, Great Catherine and Playlets of the War
    George Bernard Shaw
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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  • Plays
    George Bernard Shaw
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,58 €

  • Man and Superman a Comedy and a Philosophy
    George Bernard Shaw
    Man and Superman is a play written by the renowned playwright and philosopher, George Bernard Shaw. The play is a comedic take on the traditional romantic comedy genre, with a strong emphasis on philosophical ideas and themes. The plot follows the story of Jack Tanner, a wealthy and intellectual man who is pursued by a number of women, including his own secretary, Ann Whitefiel...
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    34,56 €

  • A Treatise on Parents and Children
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Childhood is a stage in the process of that continual remanufacture of the Life Stuff by which the human race is perpetuated. The ...
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  • Mrs Warren’s Profession
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Mrs Warren’s Profession has been performed at last, after a delay of only eight years; and I have once more shared with Ibsen the ...
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  • The Devil’s Disciple
    George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting ...
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  • Candida
    Bernard Shaw / George Bernard Shaw
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - A fine October morning in the north east suburbs of London, a vast district many miles away from the London of Mayfair and St. Jam...
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