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The George Bernard Shaw Collection - cover

The George Bernard Shaw Collection

George Bernard Shaw

Publisher: Charles River Editors

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Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button.  All of our collections include a linked table of contents.

George Bernard Shaw was one of the greatest playwrights in English literature and was very influential in 20th century theater.  Shaw's plays are noted for their critical nature of society during his day.  This collection includes the following:

PLAYS:
Pygmalion
Major Barbara
Man and Superman
The Philanderer
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Arms and the Man
Candida
The Man of Destiny
You Never Can Tell
The Devil’s Disciple
Ceasar and Cleopatra
Captain Brassbound’s Conversion
The Admirable Bashville
The Revolutionist’s Handbook and Pocket Companion
John Bull’s Other Island
How He Lied to Her Husband
The Doctor’s Dilemma
Getting Married
The Glimpse of Reality
Press Cuttings
The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet
Misalliance
Dark Lady of the Sonnets
Fanny’s First Play
Overruled
Androcles and the Lion
The Great Catherine
The Inca of Perusalem
O’Flaherty V.C.
Augustus Does His Bit
Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress
Heartbreak House
Back to Methuselah
 
NOVELS:
The Irrational Knot
Cashel Byron’s Profession
An Unsocial Socialist
 
SHORT STORIES:
The Miraculous Revenge
 
NON-FICTION:
The Perfect Wagnerite
Maxims for Revolutionists
A Treatise on Parents and Children
On the Prospects of Christianity
The Impossibilities of Anarchism
Available since: 03/22/2018.

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