Heartbreak House
by George Bernard Shaw
195 pages~3 hrs
“A comedy of manners on the brink of an apocalypse.”
Step into a house where the elite play at love and philosophy while the world outside prepares to burn. George Bernard Shaw’s biting comedy captures the brilliance and blindness of a generation drifting toward the Great War with nothing but their wit to save them.
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