Arms and the Man
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105114412377
Pages : 73 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Arms and the Man PDF Format Full Free by George Bernard Shaw and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2006 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of one of Shaw’s most delightful comedies—part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic Raina, a young woman with romantic notions of war and an idealized view of her soldier fiancé, is surprised one night by a Swiss mercenary soldier seeking refuge in her bedchamber. The pragmatic Captain Bluntschli proceeds to puncture all of Raina’s illusions about love, heroism, and class. In a second duel of sex, Louka, Raina’s maid, uses her wiles in her attempt to gain power. Optimistic, farcical, absurd, and teeming with sexual energy, Arms and the Man has Shaw inverting the devices of melodrama to glorious effect. This is the definitive text prepared under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence. The volume includes Shaw’s preface of 1898.