- Social aspects of Crime, Fathers and daughters, Literature, Classic Literature
This is a play with the theme of societal salvation and salvation of the human soul brought out in characters representing the rich versus the poor.
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Prestige, classical in form, spare and character-led.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- George Bernard Shaw
- First published
- 1909
- Pages
- 148
- Publisher
- Penguin Plays, Longman, Garland Pub.
- Editions
- 175
- Language
- Korean, English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780497256128
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About George Bernard Shaw · 1856–1950
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