Heartbreak House

by George Bernard Shaw

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  • 133 pages
  • Year: 1919
  • ~14h 46m
  • ★★★★★

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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.

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Published in 1919, Heartbreak House is an examination of the failings of the European leisure classes before World War I - failings that author George Bernard Shaw blamed for the war, and that he predicted would quickly lead to another, longer war.

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