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Heartbreak House

George Bernard Shaw

Playsabout 5 h 15 min of listening

Men and women of the English leisured classes gather at a country house on the eve of war to discuss love, life, and the future.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Where Heartbreak House Stands
  3. The Inhabitants
  4. Horseback Hall
  5. Revolution on the Shelf
  6. The Cherry Orchard
  7. Nature’s Long Credits
  8. The Wicked Half Century
  9. Hypochondria
  10. Those Who Do Not Know How to Live Must Make a Merit of Dying
  11. War Delirium
  12. Madness in Court
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  1. The Long Arm of War
  2. The Rabid Watchdogs of Liberty
  3. The Sufferings of the Sane
  4. Evil in the Throne of Good
  5. Straining at the Gnat and Swallowing the Camel
  6. Little Minds and Big Battles
  7. The Dumb Capables and the Noisy Incapables
  8. The Practical Business Men
  9. How the Fools Shouted the Wise Men Down
  10. The Mad Election
  11. The Yahoo and the Angry Ape
  12. Plague on Both Your Houses!
  13. How the Theatre Fared
  14. The Soldier at the Theatre Front
  15. Commerce in the Theatre
  16. Unser Shakespeare
  17. The Higher Drama Put Out of Action
  18. Church and Theatre
  19. The Next Phase
  20. The Ephemeral Thrones and the Eternal Theatre
  21. How War Muzzles the Dramatic Poet
  22. Dramatis Personae
  23. Heartbreak House
  24. Act I
  25. Act II
  26. Act III
  27. Colophon
  28. Uncopyright

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Source: Standard Ebooks. CC0 1.0 (Standard Ebooks edition); the text is in the public domain

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