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Arms and the Man
Author: George Bernard Shaw

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Publisher: Dover Publications
Book Type: Paperback
Rating:
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ISBN-13: 9780486264769 - ISBN-10: 0486264769
Publication Date: 7/1/1990
Pages: 80


Other Versions of this Book: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Hardcover

Book Description:
Witty masterpiece combines high comedy with social commentary in deflating romantic misconceptions of love and warfare. First produced on the London stage in 1894, Arms and the Man is one of the most acted and studied of Shaw's plays. It is reprinted here from an authoritative early edition, complete with Shaw's preface to Volume II of Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant.

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Diane B. (cyber-librarian) - NC wrote on 7/31/2006...


This is a funny play about a soldier coming upon women at home alone while their men are away at war. Then what happens when the fiance discovers the truth.


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