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Contributor(s): Shaw, George Bernard (Author), 1st World Library (Editor), 1stworld Library (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1421807459     ISBN-13: 9781421807454
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
OUR PRICE: $25.60  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2005
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 822.912
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.74 lbs) 156 pages
Features: Dust Cover
 
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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it it is vacant at present] would have, on his right, Lady Britomart's writing table, with the lady herself busy at it; a smaller writing table behind him on his left; the door behind him on Lady Britomart's side; and a window with a window seat directly on his left. Near the window is an armchair. Lady Britomart is a woman of fifty or thereabouts, well dressed and yet careless of her dress, well bred and quite reckless of her breeding, well mannered and yet appallingly outspoken and indifferent to the opinion of her interlocutory, amiable and yet perem-ptory, arbitrary, and high-tempered to the last bearable degree, and withal a very typical managing matron of the upper class, treated as a naughty child until she grew into a scolding mother, and finally settling down with plenty of practical ability and worldly experience, limited in the oddest way with domestic and class limitations, conceiving the universe exactly as if it were a large house in Wilton Crescent, though handling her corner of it very effectively on that assumption, and being quite enlightened and liberal as to the books in the library, the pictures on the walls, the music in the portfolios, and the articles in the papers.
 
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