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George Bernard ShawЖанр:
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2026-02-25Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
113
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George Bernard Shaw’s published this series of five linked plays in a single volume in 1921. It was first performed in 1922 in New York.
We begin in the year 4004 BC. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve discover death, and a serpent teaches them what it is to conceive new life.
It is the early twentieth century. The brothers Barnabas are discussing the political need for people to live for three centuries when the leaders of the Liberal party arrive to convince one of them to run for Parliament.
It is the year 2170. British public services are provided so effectively by the Chinese that government has become largely ceremonial and Parliament full of the...
