Major Barbara
by George Bernard Shaw
“Is it better to starve with a clean conscience or do good with dirty money?”
Idealism meets its match in this sharp-witted battle of wills between a devout Salvation Army Major and her father, a cynical arms tycoon. As Barbara Undershaft struggles to reconcile her faith with her family’s "tainted" fortune, she discovers that the price of saving the world might be higher than she ever imagined.
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