Major Political Writings (Shaw George Bernard)(Paperback / softback)

Major Political Writings (Shaw George Bernard)(Paperback / softback)

A new collection of Shaw's major political writings presents an opportunity to reflect on his influential role as a public intellectual. At the forefront of economic and political debate from the 1880s to the 1950s, George Bernard Shaw was once the most widely read socialist writer in the English

Major Cultural Essays (Shaw George Bernard)(Paperback / softback)

George Bernard Shaw's Major Cultural Essays introduces readers to the wealth and diversity of Shaw's cultural writings from across the breadth of his professional life, beginning around 1890 and ending in

Playlets (Shaw George Bernard)(Paperback / softback)

This Oxford World Classic includes sixteen of George Bernard Shaw's shortest theatrical scripts. This collection introduces readers to the playlets virtually unknown outside the world of Shavian scholarship by revealing how they explain Shaw's own life and

George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction (Wixson Christopher)(Paperback)

George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a playwright, he transformed British drama, bringing

Pygmalion (Shaw George Bernard)(Paperback / softback)

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.George Bernard Shaw's classic play and satire of the British class system, first performed in

Živnost paní Warrenové - George Bernard Shaw

Satirická divadelní hra George Bernarda Shawa, nositele Nobelovy ceny za literaturu. Její provozování bylo ve Velké Británii zakázáno do roku 1925, protože se věnuje bez skrupulí problému kuplířství. Paní Warrenová, kdysi chudé děvče, které nechtělo otročit ve fabrice za

Major Barbara (Shaw George Bernard)(Paperback)

Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of one of Shaw's most forward-looking plays--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows

Pygmalion & Other Plays (Shaw George Bernard)(Pevná vazba)

George Bernard Shaw is one of the most famous and celebrated Irish playwrights and this new collection brings together the very best of his witty and entertaining comedies in one volume; Pygmalion, Major Barbara and Androcles and the Lion.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of

Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts (Shaw George Bernard)(Paperback)

George Bernard Shaw's witty comedy of manners, Pygmalion includes an introduction by Nicholas Grene in Penguin Classics.Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his

Lady Gregory's Toothbrush (Toibin Colm)(Paperback / softback)

This sharp and stylish biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as 'the greatest living Irishwoman' - Augusta

Rousseau: The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings (Gourevitch Victor)(Paperback)

A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's major later political writings in up-to-date English translations. This volume includes the essay on Political Economy, The Social Contract, and the extensive, late Considerations on the Government of Poland, as well as the important draft

Heartbreak House (Shaw George Bernard)(Paperback)

Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's telling indictment of the generation responsible for World War I--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic When Ellie Dunn joins a house party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her

Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan (Shaw George Bernard)(Paperback / softback)

Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan are widely considered to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British

Likeness is in the Looking - Collected Writings of Patrick George (George Patrick)(Paperback / softback)

Man and Superman (Shaw George Bernard)(Paperback)

Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of the first great twentieth-century English play and a classic expos of the eternal struggle between the sexes--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic After the death of her father, Ann Whitefield becomes the joint ward of

Plays Pleasant (Shaw George Bernard)(Paperback)

Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's volume of 'pleasant' plays, Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, and You Never Can Tell--part of the official Bernard Shaw LibraryA Penguin Classic One of Bernard Shaw's most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque

Fable of the Bees and Other Writings - Publick Benefits' (Mandeville Bernard)(Paperback / softback)

Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings (Herder Johann Gottfried)(Paperback / softback)

Selected Political Writings - The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays(Paperback / softback)

Pygmalión - George Bernard Shaw

Slavná komedie o pěti dějstvích nese název podle pověsti o řeckém sochaři, jenž vytvořil sochu tak krásnou, že se do ní zamiloval a na bohyni Afrodité pro ni vyprosil řeč a život. Stala se předlohou slavného muzikálu My Fair Lady. 42. svazek edice D poprvé vychází česky

Atentáty - Ivan Brož - e-kniha

eBook: Jestliže slavný anglický dramatik irského původu George Bernard Shaw prohlásil, že atentát je extrémní formou cenzury, pak je na místě otázka, co představuje atentát, který selhal. Jistě jde o stejně odsouzeníhodný čin jako zdařilý atentát, i když soud jej obvykle

Pygmalion: 1941 Version with Variants from the 1916 Edition (Shaw George Bernard)(Paperback)

When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance the girl in question,

Pygmalion (sběratelská edice) - George Bernard Shaw

Profesor se vsadí s přítelem, že naučí mladou květinářku vybrané mluvě a chování, takže ji za pár měsíců nikdo nerozezná od rozené vévodkyně. | Příběh Shawovy hry, v níž cítíme lehounkou ozvěnu pohádky o Popelce, je tedy velmi jednoduchý, a ona přitom oplývá

Interrogation of Silence - The Writings of George Mackay Brown (Murray Rowena)(Paperback / softback)