Heartbreak House, Great Catherine And Playlets Of The War by George Bernard Shaw
A collection that pairs a darkly comic, full-length drawing-room drama about a small coastal household—whose self-indulgent, largely complacent inhabitants and their eccentric paterfamilias embody the moral and psychological rot of a society adrift in wartime—with a set of brisk one-act satires that skewer military pomposity, imperial swagger and political hypocrisy. With sharp wit, paradox and grotesque caricature, the pieces move between farce and bitter sobriety to expose the absurdity and human costs of nationalism, class complacency and failed leadership, urging moral self-scrutiny and social change.
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