HEARTBREAK HOUSE is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface.
An edition of Heartbreak House
(1919)
Heartbreak house
Dover ed.
by George Bernard Shaw and George Shaw
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Published in 1919, Heartbreak House is an examination of the failings of the European leisure classes before World War I—failings that author George Bernard Shaw blamed for the war, and that he predicted would quickly lead to another, longer war.
The play is set in an English country house, where representatives of every type of English society have gathered at the home of the seemingly-mad Captain Shotover. Hidebound aristocrats and cultured bohemians, wealthy capitalists and radical idealists, prim moralists and idle libertines, are all laid bare in one of Shaw’s bleakest and yet most absurd plays.
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Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes (Shaw Library)
February 7, 1988, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
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Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes (Penguin Plays & Screenplays)
January 30, 1965, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
0140480536 9780140480535
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