George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia In The Russian Manner On English Themes
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George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia in the Russian Manner
on English Themes
The author
George Bernard Shaw -he later dropped the name George- was born in
Dublin in 1856, the third and youngest child of an alcoholic father and an
undomestic mother. He developed an interest in liter ....
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.... society through co-operation with the ‘
bourgeois' classes. He wrote a great number of speeches, pamphlets and
articles for the Fabians, and in 1889 he edited the Fabian Essays, an
import document in the history of British socialism. His work with and for
the Fabian Society continued until the end of his life, during which period
he wrote a number of important socialist articles, such as the anti-war
pamphlet ‘Common sense about the war' in 1914 and the ‘Woman's guide to
Socialis ....
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