About this title: When Ellie Dunn joins a house-party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for money rather than love, and the Captain's forthright daughter Hesione protests vigorously against the pragmatic young woman's choice. Opinion on the matter quickly divides and a lively argument about money and ...
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Description: Good. Publishers Overstock. A Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the covers and the extremities. Buy with confidence from an Independent Bookstore where the owners, a husband and wife team, have over 25 years of combined bookselling experience. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: A Penguin Classics Publication By Penguin Books, London UK
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780140437874ISBN:0140437878
Description: Very Good + Not Issued With A Dustjacket. 160 Numbered Pages. 5" x 7 3/4" The nearly pristine textblock of this studied and backpacked trade paperback reprint is clean, tight, square, carries no highlighting, underlining or marginalia, and shows only a few short corrected cornerfolds and mild corner fanning. The colorful illustrated covers are clean, bright and show only light finish rubbing, minor edge and corner bumping, a few short superficial creases to the lower fore-edge corner of the ... read more
Description: HB, Brentano's, 1919. Green cloth covers have rubbing, wear to extremities, backstrip with paste-on label darkening, small bookstore sticker inside back cover, weak back hinge, contents lightly browning. Good. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Constable
Date Published: 1927
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Some pencil markings to Heartbreak House and roughcut pages, but a solid copy of the collection of plays by Shaw first published eight years before this sixth impression. read more
Edition: \N
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Book Jungle
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781438509235ISBN:1438509235
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9.25 by 7 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00140 pages) george bernard shaw was born in dublin in 1856. before becoming a playwright he wrote music and literary criticism. shaw used his writing to attack social problems such as education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. shaw wa lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
"Have I ever read a Shaw play that seemed 5 star? Proabably not, but that may be because his world view and mine are so different. He was very clever, and his work is alway challenging. Read it and think about the sort of person you are."
"Heartbreak House was not what I would consider the best of George Bernard Shaw's plays. The Preface, in particular, was difficult to get through, but after a time it began to get interesting. The idea of the play was to write about World War I from a civilian's perspective -- the point of view of one seeing the War as a novelty rather than the tragedy that it truly was. The play takes place over (two? one?) night at a country manor in the shape of a ship, symbolic of a leisurely Europe sailing into the new century. The play covers the mundane topics of everyday life in Britain in the time, various satirical references to the young lady's marrying for wealth and wealth alone. Each character is torn down to the bare minimum of what they are, ending in an amusing scene in which the "practical businessman" deigns it proper to strip bare since already he has been stripped to his mere morality. The play ends with shots being fired and bombs being dropped near the house, the War that nobody mentioned prior to this point in the play being brought home and perhaps knocking the unaware to their senses as to what really matters."
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