| Arms and the Man Contributor(s): Shaw, George Bernard (Author), Weintraub, Rodelle (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0143039768 ISBN-13: 9780143039761 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: "Arms and the Man," optimistic, farcical, absurd, and teeming with sexual energy, has Shaw inverting the devices of melodrama to glorious effect. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.912 |
| LCCN: 2005056724 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 7.5" (0.22 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of one of Shaw's most delightful comedies--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic Raina, a young woman with romantic notions of war and an idealized view of her soldier fianc , is surprised one night by a Swiss mercenary soldier seeking refuge in her bedchamber. The pragmatic Captain Bluntschli proceeds to puncture all of Raina's illusions about love, heroism, and class. In a second duel of sex, Louka, Raina's maid, uses her wiles in her attempt to gain power. Optimistic, farcical, absurd, and teeming with sexual energy, Arms and the Man has Shaw inverting the devices of melodrama to glorious effect. This is the definitive text prepared under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence. The volume includes Shaw's preface of 1898. |