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Plays Pleasant

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Author:	George Bernard Shaw
Publisher:	Penguin
Series:	Penguin Classics
ISBN:	9780140437942
Pages:	336
Cover:	Paperback
Weight:	0.30кг
Dimensions:	20см X 13см X 2см

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Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw’s volume of “pleasant” plays, Arms and the Man, Candida , The Man of Destiny , and You Never Can Tell —part of the official Bernard Shaw Library

A Penguin Classic

One of Bernard Shaw’s most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour is revealed. Shaw mocks deluded idealism in Candida , when a young poet becomes infatuated with the wife of a Socialist preacher. The Man of Destiny is a witty war of words between Napoleon and a “strange lady,” while in the exuberant farce You Never Can Tell a divided family is reunited by chance. Although Shaw intended Plays Pleasant to be gentler comedies than those in their companion volume, Plays Unpleasant , their prophetic satire is sharp and provocative.

This is the definitive text prepared under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence. The volume includes Shaw’s Preface of 1898.

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