Plays Pleasant [Audiobook] download free by George Bernard Shaw
- Listen audiobook: Plays Pleasant
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Release date: 2003/12/30
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780140437942
- Rating: 7.63 of 10
- Votes: 187
- Review by: Kallie Barry
- Review rating: 7.13 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/14
- Duration: 4H14M13S in 256 kbps (67.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-22
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG-4 DST, WAV, WMA, MPEG4, FLAC, MP3, OPUS, MPEG-4 ALS (compression RAR, TAR.Z, DMG, ZIP, ARC)
- Total pages original book: 336
- Includes a PDF summary of 30 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M3S (6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: One of Bernard Shaw's 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 a `strange lady', 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights, Anthologies (non-poetry), Plays, Playscripts
- Download servers: Google Drive, EasyBytez, EliteTorrent, MEGA, Mediafire, BitShare, Uploaded, ExtraTorrent, Torrent. Compressed in RAR, TAR.Z, DMG, ZIP, ARC
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.22 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x19mm
- Weight: 247g
- Printed by: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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