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Heartbreak House

by George Bernard Shaw

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1919
Pages
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In a rambling country house built to resemble a ship, an aging inventor, his willful daughters, and a weekend's worth of guests drift through flirtation, self-deception, and idle talk while the world outside moves toward catastrophe. Shaw wrote it during the First World War and modeled its mood on Chekhov, portraying a cultured, leisured class that has grown clever and charming yet utterly rudderless, unfit to steer the society it presides over. Beneath the drawing-room comedy runs a bleak warning about a civilization sleepwalking toward ruin, sealed by the sound of bombers overhead. Published in 1919, it counts among his most somber and haunting works.

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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, and socialist polemicist who became the leading English-language dramatist of his era. A co-founder of the Fabian Society, he used comedy to attack social hypocrisy and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.

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Book facts

First published
1919
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
173
Language
English
Genre
Satire
Formats
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