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Heartbreak House Paperback | Pages: 160 pages
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Original Title: Heartbreak House
ISBN: 0140437878 (ISBN13: 9780140437874)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Ellie Dunn, Nurse Guinness, Captain Shotover, Lady Utterword, Hesione Hushabye, Mazzini Dunn, Hector Hushabye, Arthur Mangan, Randall Utterword, Billy Dunne

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Entertaining allegory examines apathy, confusion and lack of purpose as causes of major world problems.

One of the distinguished comic dramatist's more somber plays, this entertaining allegory examines apathy, confusion and lack of purpose as causes of major world problems, with larger-than-life characters representing the evils of the modern world.

The house could arguably be a metaphorical reference to a ship which must be guided capably, not only by its crew, but also its passengers. Each character in the house represents some facet of British society, Mangan being the nouveau riche capitalist, Hesione the flighty Bohemian, Ellie a struggling member of the lower class and so on.

One of Shaw's most important and evident themes is reality versus appearances. By the end of the play, each character is revealed to be nothing like who they appeared to be in the beginning. Mangan, who was reported to be "a Napolean of industry" is revealed in the third act to be virtually penniless and incapable of running his own businesses. It is in fact Mazzini who runs Mangan's businesses although he at first appears mild and incompetent.

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Title:Heartbreak House
Author:George Bernard Shaw
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 160 pages
Published:June 29th 2000 by Penguin Classics (first published 1919)
Categories:Plays. Drama. Classics. Fiction. Theatre. European Literature. Irish Literature

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i read this in one sitting and loved it. i laughed out loud for some parts which is rare. this book will hold a special memory for me since i read this and got engaged the next day. thanks bernard

Heartbreak House is a good introduction to Shaws plays, boldly asserting his views. Although never subtle, Shaw became more skilled at the presentation of his ideas in later plays. Heartbreak House is in your face. The Preface is essentially a long editorial about World War I from a civilians perspective. Clearly this is an anti-war play:THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW HOW TO LIVE MUST MAKE A MERIT OF DYINGHeartbreak house was far too lazy and shallow to extricate itself from this palace of evil

I'm disappointed in you, GBS. Your plays are usually awesome. This was utter filth. It was like a mixture of Victorian melodrama and modern teen angst. You must have been in a very bad mood.

Complete with an author's introduction almost as long as the text of the play, Shaw shows his astonishing capacity to be very angry, very humanistic, and very funny at the same time. He's like a more modern Dr. Swift. The play itself is funny at parts but verges off into the weird and depressing by the end. But then he's trying to write an allegory for English society in war time, so I suppose weird and depressing is the way to be.

This is one of my favourite Shaw plays -- a motley crew of English aristos gather and chatter blithely about their lives and loves until the bombs drop. Written just after the First World War, it's rather like Ravel's La Valse put in the form of a comedy of manners. Somehow Absurdist and Chekhovian at the same time, with that wonderful, ringing Shavian wit.

This play is partly a comedy about a crazy family and partly a deeper philosophical reflection about the lack of attention to the needs of the world around us.

1 pint of Amsterdam Blonde2 bottles of Sleemans Cream Ale2 gin and tonics3 shots of rye on the rocks1 glass of champagne1 bottle of MooseheadSuch was my alcohol consumption this New Years Eve. And yet, as you can plainly see, I remain strangely, depressingly lucid, but with a haunting premonition of a bloated, gassy hangover and a sort of lingering foretaste of a vomitous breakfast in a greasy spoon among the pallid reflections of last nights beautiful young things, some of them still wearing