Arms and the Man
β Scribed by Shaw, George Bernard
- Book ID
- 109255096
- Publisher
- ManyBooks.net
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 53 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Overview: George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, socialist, and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama. Over the course of his life he wrote more than 60 plays.
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