Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores

Name: Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores
Author: George Bernard Shaw
ISBN: 9781787248113

Author: George Bernard Shaw
Series: Bernard Shaw Library
Language: English
Length: 62 pages
ISBN: 9781787248113
Published: 22 August 2018
Imprint: Sovereign

Bernard Shaw
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Description

Captain Charles Edstaston is assigned to the Imperial Russian court in Saint Petersburg, during the 34-year rule of Empress Catherine the Great, and brings his fiancee, Claire, with him. In the midst of court intrigue and palace politics, primarily instigated by Catherine's favored statesman and military leader, the drunken, ill-mannered, but crafty Prince Patiomkin.

Author

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) was the Irish playwright of argument as entertainment — Pygmalion, Arms and the Man, Man and Superman. A Nobel laureate and Fabian, he made comedy carry economics, sex, and the English class system. Shaw's prefaces are almost another play. With 21 titles in our catalogue, he remains the theatre's most articulate pest: ideas with timing.

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