Télécharger le livre :  Guide de la Femme intelligente en présence du Socialisme et du Capitalisme
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1928 : en Grande-Bretagne, les femmes sont autorisées à voter dès 21 ans. Des millions d’entre elles rejoignent le corps électoral, mais il faut encore les former aux idées politiques. À qui donner sa voix? Que valent le socialisme et le communisme, et comment...

Editeur : J'ai Lu
Parution : 2017-01-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Last Plays
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In Good King Charles's Golden Days: a true history that never happened. A discussion play; the issues of nature, power and leadership are debated between King Charles II ('Mr Rowley'), Isaac Newton, George Fox and the artist Godfrey Kneller. Buoyant Billions: a comedy...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-11-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Cashel Byron`s Profession
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After poleaxing his mathematics master with a perfect right, Cashel Byron, the unloved son of a successful actress, runs away to Australia. He returns to England and becomes the most famous prizefighter of his age, only to be floored himself by the lovely and impossible...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2012-10-11

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Télécharger le livre :  An Unsocial Socialist
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Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, he is determined to overthrow a society riddled with class and sexual exploitation. Henrietta, his adoring wife, 'loves' him: he must abandon her. Son of a millionaire, he gives up everything...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2012-08-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Love Among The Artists
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With his inimitable wit and sparkle, George Bernard Shaw brings us the character of Owen Jack, a salty non-conformist composer said to have been suggested by Beethoven. The relations between Jack and the other wayward bohemians of the story with the more conventional...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2012-08-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Three Plays for Puritans
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Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s deserved more than the hollow spectacle and sham he saw displayed on the London stage. But he also recognized that people wanted to be entertained while educated, and to see purpose mixed with pleasure. In these three...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-07-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Androcles and the Lion
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Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw.Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw makesAndrocles out to be one of many Christians being led to...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-06-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Heartbreak House
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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....

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Plays Unpleasant
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With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-05-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Major Barbara
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Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into her work as a Major in the Salvation Army, and sees her father as...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-02-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Saint Joan
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One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's views on the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-05-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Plays Pleasant
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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...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-03-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Pygmalion
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'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-01-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Man and Superman
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Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2000-09-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Plays Political
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While some of Shaw’s earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet, frankly, it is doubtful how seriously we can now take Shaw as a political...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1999-08-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Misalliance and the Fascinating Foundling
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This volume features the play Misalliance, which explores the incongruities of human nature and family life, and Shaw's one-act burlesque, The Fascinating Foundling.

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1995-02-02

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Télécharger le livre :  John Bull's Other Island
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Shaw’s story is rife with such ‘beyond opinions’, as an Anglo-Irish Protestant, a Dubliner in London, and a socialist living in the aftermath of the industrial revolution. In one sense, as a Protestant choosing to live in London, he is a John Bull, yet he remains Irish...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1994-09-29

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Télécharger le livre :  The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Fanny's First Play
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‘A tearing, flaring, revivalist drama’ was how Desmond MacCarthy described The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. Set in America’s Wild West and aptly subtitled‘A Sermon in Crude Melodrama’, this single-act play concerns the conversion of a horse thief desperate to ‘keep the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1994-05-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Plays Extravagant
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This is a collection of the plays of George Bernard Shaw that includes "The Millionairess", "Too True to be Good" and "The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles".

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1991-11-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Selected Short Plays
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This selection comprises: "THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE" "HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND" "PASSION, POISON AND PETRIFACTION" "THE GLIMPSE OF REALITY" "THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS" "OVERRULED" "THE MUSIC-CURE" "GREAT CATHERINE" "THE INCA OF PERUSALEM" "O'FLAHERTY V.C." "AUGUSTUS...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1988-01-28

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