Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 856 results for “bernard shaw”
Skip side bar filters

  • Complete Works of George Bernard Shaw (Delphi Classics)

    by George Bernard Shaw, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 4 - Delphi Series Five
    George Bernard Shaw created pioneering dramas that probed prevailing social problems with a vein of comedy that made their stark themes more palatable, while striving to make the world aware of the exploitation of the working classes. For the first time in digital publishing, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete fictional works of George Bernard Shaw, with every play, novel and short ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Pygmalion

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    Pygmalion was written by George Bernard Shaw and first published in 1913. It is the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In the process, Higgins and ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Saint Joan

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    Saint Joan is a 1923 play written by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw depicting the life of Joan of Arc and first published in 1923. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Works of George Bernard Shaw

    Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited George Bernard Shaw collection: Introduction: Mr. Bernard Shaw (by G. K. Chesterton) Novels: Cashel Byron's Profession An Unsocial Socialist Love Among The Artists The Irrational Knot Plays: Plays Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses (1892) The Philanderer (1898) Mrs. Warren's Profession (1898) Plays Pleasant: Arms And The Man: An Anti-Romantic Comedy in ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pygmalion

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    George Bernard Shaw based his 1913 play "Pygmalion" on the Greek legend of the sculptor, Pygmalion. According to the classic tale, Pygmalion despised women but fell in love with his own sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite. He appeals to Aphrodite to give his statue life. She answers his prayer, and Pygmalion marries his creation.Shaw’s play takes place in Victorian London, where Henry Higgins, a ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Drama, novels, essays, political satire, and literary criticism

    by George Bernard Shaw, Rowan Oakbourne ...
    The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw gathers the astonishing range of Shaw's dramatic, fictional, critical, and polemical writing, revealing a mind for whom literature was inseparable from public argument. From the paradoxical wit and social satire of the plays to the essays, lectures, articles, letters, and early novels, the volume situates Shaw within the currents of late Victorian and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pygmalion - The Original Classic Edition

    by Shaw Bernard ...
    It is not very likely that George Bernard Shaw knew he was writing the play that would become one of the seminal romantic comedies of the 20th when he penned `Pygmalion. The play is delightful, with borrowed elements from many genres. There is comedy and romance, above all, but there is also a very clear social critic -- and even a Marxist idea of class struggle. What only enhances the reading of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • George Bernard Shaw: Collected Works

    Enriched edition. Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays

    by George Bernard Shaw, Bret Alden ...
    The "Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw" is a comprehensive compendium that encapsulates the sharp wit, social criticism, and innovative theatrical techniques of one of the 20th century's most influential playwrights. This anthology showcases Shaw's extensive oeuvre, from his celebrated plays like "Pygmalion" and "Saint Joan" to his essays and prefaces that unveil his progressive ideas on ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Illustrated Collected Plays: Classic drama of comedy, philosophy, social critique, and political satire

    by George Bernard Shaw, Rowan Oakbourne ...
    George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated) gathers the dramatic works of one of modern theatre's most incisive voices, presenting comedies, problem plays, and social satires that transformed the stage from mere entertainment into a forum for argument. Shaw's prose is brilliant, paradoxical, and combative; his dialogue fuses wit with moral inquiry. Set against the late Victorian and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pygmalion

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    “The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They cannot spell it because they have nothing to spell it with but an old foreign alphabet of which only the consonants – and not all of them – have any agreed speech value.After a chance meeting with fellow linguist Colonel Pickering, phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can pass off ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays

    Plays, novels, essays, and political satire from a Nobel Prize winner

    by George Bernard Shaw ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer and wrote more than 60 plays. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arms and the Man - An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts

    by Bernard Shaw ...
    Arms And The Man' is a three-act play written by Bernard Shaw in 1920. An 'anti-romantic comedy', this play endeavours to attack the romantic notion of war by portraying a much more realistic illustration of its plights. A clever, witty, and subtle gem of theatre from the author of 'Pygmalion' that continues to hold up more than 100 years after its writing, this is a play that will appeal to those ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus