Description: Gorgeous first edition set in custom leather and board enclosure. London: Grant Richards, 1898. "First edition of the definitive text of Shaw’s volume of “unpleasant” plays: Widowers’ Houses, The Philanderer, and Mrs. Warren’s Profession Octavo, two volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece and 8 pages of publisher’s advertisements to Vol. I, 4 pages of publisher’s advertisements to Vol. II. In good condition. With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences’ complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves. His first play, Widowers’ Houses, depicts Harry Trench’s dilemma on learning that the inheritance of his fiancée comes from her father’s income as a slum landlord. In The Philanderer, charismatic Leonard Charteris proposes marriage to Grace, while he is still involved with the beautiful Julia Craven—who is not inclined to give him up so easily. And in Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Vivie Warren is forced to reconsider her own future when she discovers that her mother’s immoral earnings funded her genteel upbringing." (from Raptis Books listing)
Price: 300 USD
Location: Tacoma, Washington
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Shipping Cost: 10 USD
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Topic: Poetry & Plays
Author: george bernard shaw
Binding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Subject: Literature & Fiction
