Plays Pleasant

by George Bernard Shaw and Bernard Shaw

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140437940
• ISBN13: 9780140437942
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher