Arms and the Man - Couverture souple

Shaw, George Bernard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 935033061X ISBN 13 : 9789350330616

Editeur : Maple Press Pvt Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Arms and the Man est l'une des comédies les plus scintillantes de George Bernard Shaw qui se déroule pendant la guerre serbo-bulgare de 1885. Il raconte l'histoire d'une jeune femme bulgare, Raina, qui rencontre Bluntschli, un soldat suisse mercenaire de l'armée serbe, quand il fait irruption dans sa chambre et la supplie de le cacher. Arms and the Man , un mélange d'esprit et d'humour, présente une satire sur les valeurs conventionnelles de la guerre, de l'amour, de la classe sociale et de la moralité.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. He was also an essayist, novelist and short story writer. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems with a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Influenced by his reading, he became a dedicated socialist and a charter member of the Fabian Society, a middle-class organization established in 1884 to promote the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means. In 1898, he married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a fellow Fabian, whom he survived. They settled in Ayot St Lawrence in a house now called Shaw's Corner. Shaw died there, aged 94, from chronic problems exacerbated by injuries he incurred by falling from a ladder. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (an adaptation of his play of the same name), respectively. He refused all other awards and honours, including the offer of a knighthood.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It was first produced on April 21, 1894 at the Avenue Theatre and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. The play premiered to an enthusiastic reception. Only one man booed Shaw at the end, to which Shaw replied: 'My dear fellow, I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many?'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Maple Press Pvt Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 935033061X
• ISBN 13: 9789350330616
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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