TY - BOOK AU - Shaw,Bernard TI - Arms and the Man AV - PR PY - 2003/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - War -- Drama KW - Love -- Drama KW - Man-woman relationships -- Drama KW - Serbo-Bulgarian War, 1885 -- Drama KW - Italians -- Bulgaria -- Drama KW - Soldiers -- Bulgaria -- Drama KW - Bulgaria -- Drama N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_and_the_Man; Release date is 2003-01-01; Jim Tinsley with help from the distributed proofreaders; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Arms and the Man" by George Bernard Shaw is a comedy first produced in 1894. Set during the Serbo-Bulgarian War, the play follows Raina, an idealistic young Bulgarian woman engaged to a battlefield hero, whose romantic notions are challenged when a pragmatic Swiss mercenary takes refuge in her bedroom. Shaw humorously exposes the futility of war and the hypocrisies of human nature as characters grapple with the gap between romantic ideals and reality, leading to unexpected revelations and shifting allegiances. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3618 ER -