Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw (English) Paperback Book

Description: Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence, Margery Morgan A drama about an armaments king, his daughter in the Salvation army and a foundling Professor of Greek. The society that makes Barbara necessary is repellent, but should we admire or condemn do-gooders like her? FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description With new introduction by Margery MorganAndrew 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 another soul to be saved. But when the Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day with a large cheque - forcing Barbara to examine her moral assumptions. Are they right to accept money that has been obtained by Death and Destruction? Full of lively comedy and sparkling debate, Major Barbara is one of Shaws most forward-looking plays, brilliantly testing the tensions between religion, wealth and power, benevolence and equality, and metaphors and realities of war. Notes Part of a series of eight Shaw titles to be re-issued as Penguin Classics and introduced by leading actors, playwrights and critics. Author Biography Dublin-born George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He was strongly critical of London theatre and closely associated with the intellectual revival of British drama. Dan H. Laurence has edited Shaws Collected Letters and Collected Plays with their Prefaces. He was Literary Advisor to the Shaw Estate until his retirement in 1990. Margery Morgan is an Emeritus Reader in English of Lancaster University. Review By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"[Shaw] did his best in redressing the fateful unbalance between truth and reality, in lifting mankind to a higher rung of social maturity. He often pointed a scornful finger at human frailty, but his jests were never at the expense of humanity." —Thomas Mann "Shaw will not allow complacency; he hates second-hand opinions; he attacks fashion; he continually challenges and unsettles, questioning and provoking us even when he is making us laugh. And he is still at it. No cliché or truism of contemporary life is safe from him." —Michael Holroyd "In his works Shaw left us his mind. . . . Today we have no Shavian wizard to awaken us with clarity and paradox, and the loss to our national intelligence is immense." —The Sunday Times "He was a Tolstoy with jokes, a modern Dr. Johnson, a universal genius who on his own modest reckoning put even Shakespeare in the shade." —The Independent "His plays were superb exercises in high-level argument on every issue under the sun, from feminism and God, to war and eternity, but they were also hits—and still are." —The Daily Mail Review Quote By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Details ISBN0140437908 Short Title MAJOR BARBARA Series Penguin Classics Language English ISBN-10 0140437908 ISBN-13 9780140437904 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 822.912 Imprint Penguin Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st DOI 10.1604/9780140437904 UK Release Date 2000-11-30 Edited by Dan Laurence Author Margery Morgan Pages 176 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2000 Publication Date 2000-11-30 Alternative 9780141929422 Audience General NZ Release Date 2005-02-23 AU Release Date 2005-02-23 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145050673;

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