false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174340370m/383018.jpg 383018 23 Arms and the Man is a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and published in 1898, and has become on the the most popular plays of George Bernard Shaw. Like his other works, Arms and the Man questions conventional values and uses war and love as his satirical targets. This edition of Arms and the Man is in the form of a paperback book. 628265 1894 Arms and the Man total:448|5:108|4:176|3:127|2:35|1:3| 448 1694 606 30 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jul 15 16:25:22 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 16:28:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 08:16:13 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 08:20:06 -0800 2009
The language is typically wonderful. The female characters are well fleshed out and multi-dementional - as we have all become to expect from Shaw.

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