description: John Bull's Other IslandCan you ever really go home again? What if you bring a friend and he is welcomed like a favorite son?In this comedy by the masterful George Bernard Shaw, Larry Doyle is a successful engineer in London who returns to his birthplace in Ireland for a business deal. His partner, Tom Broadbent, has romantic notions of the Emerald Isle and is eager to come along. Broadbent cuts a swathe through the small town, charming nearly everyone he meets including Doyle's sweetheart. Major BarbaraWhen a Salvation Army officer learns that her father, a wealthy armaments manufacturer, has donated lots of money to her organization, she resigns in disgust but eventually sees the truth of her father's reasoning that social iniquity derives from poverty; it is only through accumulating wealth and power that people can help each other.How He Lied to Her HusbandA One Act Play - By George Bernard Shaw. The three-character play is set in the drawing room of a flat located on Cromwell Road in London. Aurora Bompas, the wife, Teddy, her husband and Henry Apjohn. Aurora is distressed because she has misplaced some poems, in which she is identified by name, written for her with declarations of love by the impetuous Henry.
language: English
title: John Bull's Other Island / Major Barbara / How He Lied to Her Husband
titlecomplete: John Bull's Other Island / Major Barbara / How He Lied to Her Husband
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Classic Books