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COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD : https://site.bookcenterapp.com/YUMPU/0140437940 Book Synopsis Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw17s volume of 20pleasant21 plays, Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, and You Never Can Tell12part of the official Bernard Shaw LibraryA Penguin ClassicOne of Bernard Shaw17s 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 anbsp20strange lady,21 while in the exuberant farce You Never Can Tell a divided family is reunited by chance. Although Shaw intended Plays Pleasant to be gentler comedies than those in their companion volume, Plays Unpleasant, their prophetic satire is sharp and provocative.This is the definitive text prepared under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence. The volume includes Shaw17s Preface of 1898.

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Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw17s volume of 20pleasant21 plays, Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, and You Never Can Tell12part of the official Bernard Shaw LibraryA Penguin ClassicOne of Bernard Shaw17s 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 anbsp20strange lady,21 while in the exuberant farce You Never Can Tell a divided family is reunited by chance. Although Shaw intended Plays Pleasant to be gentler comedies than those in their companion volume, Plays Unpleasant, their prophetic satire is sharp and provocative.This is the definitive text prepared under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence. The volume includes Shaw17s Preface of 1898.

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Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw17s

volume of 20pleasant21 plays, Arms and the Man, Candida,

The Man of Destiny, and You Never Can Tell12part of the

official Bernard Shaw LibraryA Penguin ClassicOne of Bernard

Shaw17s 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

anbsp20strange lady,21 while in the exuberant farce You

Never Can Tell a divided family is reunited by chance.

Although Shaw intended Plays Pleasant to be gentler

comedies than those in their companion volume, Plays

Unpleasant, their prophetic satire is sharp and

provocative.This is the definitive text prepared under the

editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence. The volume includes

Shaw17s Preface of 1898.

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