Major Barbara

Author: George Bernard Shaw; Dan H. Laurence (Editor); Margery Morgan (Introduction by)

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Price : 29.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780140437904
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.132
Publication date : 30 November 2000
Dimensions : 1.1 Centimeters X 12.8 Centimeters X 19.6 Centimeters
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Author : George Bernard Shaw; Dan H. Laurence (Editor); Margery Morgan (Introduction by)
Series : Penguin Classics Ser.
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Dewey classification : 822.912
Pages : 176
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Barbara Undershaft is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For many years, Barbara and her siblings have been estranged from their father, Andrew Undershaft, who now reappears as a rich and successful munitions maker. Undershaft, the father, gives money to the Salvation Army, which offends Major Barbara , who does not want to be connected to his tainted wealth. However, the father argues that poverty is a worse problem than munitions, and claims that he is doing more to help society by giving his workers jobs and a steady income than Major Barbara is doing to help them by giving them bread and soup.