Heartbreak House de George Bernard Shaw

Heartbreak House

George Bernard Shaw

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 mai 2008

Heartbreak House, by Shaw, George Bernard - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - A savage and witty critique of European civilization on the brink of the First World War, Heartbreak House is Shaw, George Bernard's favorite among his own works. The play chronicles a dinner party at a British country house, and centers on Ellie, who is engaged to be married to an unscrupulous businessman. Hesione, the party's hostess, is eager to prevent this match, but what can be done when Ellie falls for another unsuitable man - Hesione's husband? The various inhabitants and guests of Heartbreak House are either blissfully ignorant or idealistic but ineffectual, and for Shaw represent those who could have prevented the First World War but were too wrapped up in their own privileged lives to make a difference.

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Preț

Express

Paperback (7)

51^.54 lei 21-33 zile

+16^.41 lei 6-12 zile

Penguin Books – 28 iun 2000

51^.54 lei 21-33 zile

+16^.41 lei 6-12 zile

–

68^.38 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

69^.59 lei 3-5 săpt.

Akasha Classics – 29 mai 2008

85^.40 lei 6-8 săpt.

1st World Library –

87^.07 lei 6-8 săpt.

Book Jungle – 21 oct 2008

108^.96 lei 6-8 săpt.

Sovereign – 20 aug 2018

125^.64 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hardback (2)

154^.15 lei 6-8 săpt.

Akasha Classics – 29 mai 2008

154^.15 lei 6-8 săpt.

1st World Library –

179^.04 lei 6-8 săpt.

Notă biografică

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871. Shaw would also have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the musical My Fair Lady and its film version. Shaw mentioned that the character of Professor Henry Higgins was inspired by several British professors of phonetics: Alexander Melville Bell, Alexander J. Ellis, Tito Pagliardini, but above all, the cantankerous Henry Sweet.