- EAN13
- 9782385821487
- Éditeur
- Quick Read
- Date de publication
- 16/02/2024
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9782385821487
- Fichier EPUB, libre d'utilisation
- Fichier Mobipocket, libre d'utilisation
- Lecture en ligne, lecture en ligne
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Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.
This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each
chapter.
\- Reading time of the complete text: about 2 hours
\- Reading time of the summarized text: 1 minute
"Arms and the Man" is a comedy play by George Bernard Shaw that deals with the
futility of war and the hypocrisies of human nature. The play takes place
during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War and follows the story of Raina Petkoff, a
young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff, one of the heroes of the
war. Raina hides a Swiss mercenary soldier, Captain Bluntschli, in her home
after he climbs in through her bedroom balcony window. The play ends with
Raina proclaiming her love for Bluntschli and him clearing up the major's
troop movement problems. The play was one of Shaw's first commercial successes
and has been performed numerous times since its premiere in 1894. It has been
adapted into an operetta, "The Chocolate Soldier," and has inspired a
pejorative military term in Israel. The play's message that war is not a
romantic adventure still resonates today.
This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each
chapter.
\- Reading time of the complete text: about 2 hours
\- Reading time of the summarized text: 1 minute
"Arms and the Man" is a comedy play by George Bernard Shaw that deals with the
futility of war and the hypocrisies of human nature. The play takes place
during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War and follows the story of Raina Petkoff, a
young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff, one of the heroes of the
war. Raina hides a Swiss mercenary soldier, Captain Bluntschli, in her home
after he climbs in through her bedroom balcony window. The play ends with
Raina proclaiming her love for Bluntschli and him clearing up the major's
troop movement problems. The play was one of Shaw's first commercial successes
and has been performed numerous times since its premiere in 1894. It has been
adapted into an operetta, "The Chocolate Soldier," and has inspired a
pejorative military term in Israel. The play's message that war is not a
romantic adventure still resonates today.
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