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Misalliance

First published: 1914
Pages: 124

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Shaw called this one "A Debate in One Sitting," and that is a fair warning, since the talk barely pauses for breath. The action unfolds over a single afternoon at the country house of John Tarleton, a self-made underwear manufacturer fond of lending books and dispensing advice. His daughter Hypatia is bored and hunting for a husband worth having, his son is complacent, and the household's settled assumptions get a jolt when an aeroplane crashes into the greenhouse and deposits a Polish acrobat and a young pilot in their midst. From there the guests argue about marriage, money, parents and children, and who really holds power between the generations. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available here.

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George Bernard Shaw

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.