TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw,Bernard
TI  - Heartbreak House
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama
KW  - Upper class -- England -- Drama
KW  - England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreak_House; Release date is 2002-11-01; Produced by Eve Sobol, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Heartbreak House" by Bernard Shaw is a play written during the First World War and published in 1919. Set in a ship-shaped house, the work brings together an eccentric inventor, his self-absorbed daughters, and their guests for a disastrous dinner party. As romantic entanglements collide with political irresponsibility, Shaw depicts a society adrift—cultured yet rudderless, detached from reality as war literally drops from the sky. This darkly comic fantasia reflects Shaw's disillusionment with Britain, contrasting elegant indifference against aggressive philistinism in a nation heading toward catastrophe. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3543
ER  -