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Major Barbara (Penguin Classics) Book

A drama about an armaments king, his daughter in the Salvation army and a foundling Professor of Greek. The society that makes Barbara necessary is repellent, but should we admire or condemn do-gooders like her?Read More

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  • Foyles

    Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into her work as a Major in the Salvation Army, and sees her father as another soul to be saved. But when the Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day with a large cheque - forcing Barbara to examine her moral assumptions. Are they right to accept money that has been obtained by 'Death and Destruction'? Full of lively comedy and sparkling debate, Major Barbara is one of Shaw's most forward-looking plays, brilliantly testing the tensions between religion, wealth and power, benevolence and equality, and metaphors and realities of war.

  • Blackwell

    'The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty ... our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor'Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty.

  • Penguin

    THE BERNARD SHAW LIBRARY MAJOR BARBARA INTRODUCED BY MARGERY MORGAN 'The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty...

  • Pickabook

    George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence (Editor), Margery Morgan

  • 0140437908
  • 9780140437904
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • 24 February 2005
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 176
  • New Ed
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