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Major Barbara (Penguin Classics) by Bernard Shaw; definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His energetic daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by working as a Major in the Salvation Army. She sees her father as just another soul to be saved. But when the Salvation Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day. is the Army right to accept money that has been obtained by 'Death and Destruction'? Barbara is forced to examine her moral assumptions. Is she tricked into the attempt to unite spiritual goodness with material power? <p> Full of lively comedy and sparkling debate, Major Barbara is also one of Shaw's most powerful and forward-looking plays. As Margery Morgan says, while Shaw was responding to 'a material and cultural situation that is now part of history', his work still has relevance 'in a period when new technologies drive the globalization of trade and the migration of populations ... and ancient forms of brutality and carnage have reappeared.'</p>

Who reads Major Barbara (Penguin Classics)?

Author

Bernard Shaw; definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141929422

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, True Crime

Rating

3.68 / 5 (120 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14