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Paperback Books by Bernard Shaw
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| Pygmalion |
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| by Bernard Shaw |
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| This play is based on the Greek myth of Pygmalion. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (based on phonetician Henry Sweet), who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney... Read More |
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| Publication Date: August 2008 |
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| The Doctor's Dilemma |
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| by Bernard Shaw |
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| The thesis of this play, revolutionary for its time, was that medical doctors inevitably face a dilemma between the need to care for their patients and the need to practice often unnecessary operations on them in order to earn their... Read More |
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| Publication Date: August 2008 |
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| Publication Date: March 2008 |
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| Publication Date: March 2008 |
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| Publication Date: September 2006 |
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| Arms and the Man |
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| by Bernard Shaw |
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| Arms and the Man, optimistic, farcical, absurd, and teeming with sexual energy, has Shaw inverting the devices of melodrama to glorious effect. |
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| Publication Date: June 2006 |
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| Publication Date: May 2001 |
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| Saint Joan |
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| by Bernard Shaw |
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| Joan of Arc, born in 1412, was burned at the stake in 1431, canonized by the Catholic Church in 1920, and, like most saints, whitewashed by history. Canonization tends to strip a saint of supposedly un-Christian attributes such as... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 2001 |
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| Publication Date: February 1983 |
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