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It was written in, and set during, the first world war, though theres no mention of this in the play until the last 10 minutes, when the english country home in which its set is visited by an air raid. Librivox recording of heartbreak house by george bernard shaw. George bernard shaw was born in 1856 in dublin, ireland, to a lowermiddle class family. It is a cousin to both chekhovs quirky country estates. Shaw explicitly draws parallels between this play and checkovs analysis of the decline. The heartbreak people neither could nor would do anything of the sort. Heartbreak house by bernard shaw free ebook project gutenberg. Heartbreak house, play in three acts by george bernard shaw, published in 1919 and produced in 1920. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Bernard shaws heartbreak house sydney open journals online. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
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