num_pages: 242
description: This vintage book contains George Bernard Shaw’s 1919 play, "Heartbreak A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes". Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé attend one of Hesione Hushabye’s notorious dinner parties. However, Ellie’s partner is a rake, her father is an idiot, and she has amorous feelings for Hesione’s husband. It is an adventurous farrago of comedy, tragedy, and satire that can only lead to disaster. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright who co-founded the London School of Economics. Many antiquarian books like this are increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
language: English
title: Heartbreak House
titlecomplete: Heartbreak House
characters: Ellie Dunn, Captain Shotover, Arthur Mangan, Billy Dunne, Lady Utterword, Mazzini Dunn, Randall Utterword, Nurse Guinness, Hector Hushabye, Hesione Hushabye
genres: 20th Century, Literature, British Literature, Classics, Irish Literature, Drama, Plays, Nobel Prize, Fiction, Theatre
ratings_count: 2433
publisher: Hesperides Press