Heartbreak House: Play Guide and Free Edition
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Heartbreak House is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Shaw, Bernard (1856–1950).
Catalogue synopsis
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"Heartbreak House" by Bernard Shaw is a play written during the First World War and published in 1919. Set in a ship-shaped house, the work brings together an eccentric inventor, his self-absorbed daughters, and their guests for a disastrous dinner party. As romantic entanglements collide with political irresponsibility, Shaw depicts a society adrift—cultured yet rudderless, detached from reality as war literally drops from the sky. This darkly comic fantasia reflects Shaw's disillusionment with Britain, contrasting elegant indifference against aggressive philistinism in a nation heading toward catastrophe.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Heartbreak House
- Author credits: Shaw, Bernard (1856–1950)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama
- Upper class -- England -- Drama
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama
Gutenberg collections
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
- Nobel Prizes in Literature
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