Plays Pleasant (Arms and the Man; Candida, The Man of Destiny; You Never Can Tell) PDF George Bernard Shaw

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‘Wherever the prospect is bounded by trees or rising green grounds, it is a pleasant place. Where the ground stretches flat to the grey palings, with bricks and mortar, sky signs, crowded chimneys and smoke beyond, the prospect makes it desolate and sordid.’ Desolate? It was dense with dumb humanity!

The turn-around in Victoria’s reputation in the first ten or twelve years of her reign is well exemplified in the creation of Victoria Park, Hackney. Her reign was copper-fastened in similar acts of honorific commemoration from Hong Kong to western Canada by way of Australia. Relentlessly, Victorian civil servants and military governors inscribed her name in town charters, and even on the waters of the Zambezi River. This was imperial mobility at its most seductive. There was of course another side to the Victorian miracle, painfully disclosed at home in housing inquiries. The Fabians were only the latest campaigners against Victorianism.

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• Book Name: Plays Pleasant (Arms and the Man; Candida, The Man of Destiny; You Never Can Tell) pdf
• Author Name George Bernard Shaw
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2008

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