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Excerpt: Mrs. Warren?s Profession by George Bernard Shaw.

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Excerpt: Press Cuttings by George Bernard Shaw.

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Excerpt: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.

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Excerpt: The Doctor?s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by George Bernard Shaw.

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Excerpt: An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw.

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...Excerpt: MONCRIEF HOUSE, Panley Common. Scholastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon....

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...sorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all official and conventional sermons....

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...THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Th... ...THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of... ...D SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...sics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ..., is out of fashion; and we are in that other phase, famil- iarized by the history of the French Revolution, in which the primary assumption is that t... ... the story of the Committee in greater detail, partly as a contribution to history; partly be- cause, like most true stories, it is more amusing than ... ...hief officer of the King’s household that the play was a proper one. A Two Guinea Insurance Policy The censorship, then, provides the manager, at the ... ...e censorship, then, provides the manager, at the negligible premium of two guineas per play, with an effective insurance against the author getting hi...

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...laboratory assistant, and making himself indispensable generally, in return for unspecified advantages involved by intimate intercourse with a leader of his profession, and amounting to an informal apprenticeship and a temporary affiliation. Redpenny is not proud, and will do anything he is asked without reservation of his personal dignity if he is asked in a fellow-creatu...

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Preface: Androcles and the Lion. On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw.

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...Contents PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY............................................................. 7 WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL? ........................................................................................................ 7 WHY ...

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...Excerpt: Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr. Lawrence Doyle and Mr. Thomas Broadbent, and that their rooms are on the first floor...

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...JOHN BULL’S OTHER ISLAND by George Bernard SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Jo... ...JOHN BULL’S OTHER ISLAND by George Bernard SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication John Bull’s Other... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication John Bull’s Other Island by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity... ...ic Classics Series Publication John Bull’s Other Island by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portabl... ...lication John Bull’s Other Island by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e you? BROADBENT. Yes I have. There is something very touch- ing about the history of this beautiful girl. DOYLE. Beau—! Oho! Here’s a chance for Nora... ... ears] or work- ing him harder than you’d work a horse that cost you fifty guineas. DORAN. Hwat!!! CORNELIUS [aghast]. A pound a—God save us! the boy’... ...Englishman I blush for the Union. It is the blackest stain on our national history. I look forward to the time-and it cannot be far distant, gentlemen...

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Excerpt: The Philanderer by George Bernard Shaw.

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.... Fanny?s First Play, being but a potboiler, needs no preface. But its lesson is not, I am sorry to say, unneeded. Mere morality, or the substitution of custom for conscience was once accounted a shameful and cynical thing: people talked of right and wrong, of honor and dishonor, of sin and grace, of salvation and damnation, not of morality and immorality. The word moralit...

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreig...

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...BREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbr... ...n Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...ouse: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...e Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e like to such an extent that it may be doubted whether ever before in the history of the world did soothsayers, astrologers, and unregistered thera- ... ...r vilest passions and most abject terrors. Ever since Thucydides wrote his history , it has been on record that when the angel of death sounds his tru... ...nable rent for the pro- prietor. If the twin flats and twin beds produce a guinea more than Shakespeare, out goes Shakespeare and in come the twin fla... ...e asked Londoners 34 Heartbreak House again and again why they pay half a guinea to go to a theatre when they can go to St. Paul’s or Westminster Abb...

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...rite a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are for y...

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