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  <title><![CDATA[Candida (Penguin Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;I&gt;Candida&lt;/I&gt; centers on a romantic triangle and parodies courtly love and the domestic drama of Ibsen. It abounds with classical allusions, the fervor of a religious revival, and poetic inspiration and aspirations.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1939</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[George Bernard Shaw]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 19 08:11:56 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[First of all I recommend reading this book along with Henrik Ibsen's (A Dolls House) since both books dealt with the same topic but each writer dealt with it in his own way.<br/>What I like about Shaw's play is its ending. I find Candida's decision suits her character in the play and doesn't contra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56605506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Paul]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 14 10:57:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 14 11:00:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Candidia is the free spirit wife of a minister totally devoted to the social gospel, but she would gladly be the lover of a local younger poet who is devoted to her.  But would she stay?  Written for a society that was devoted to marriage, Shaw gives us a marriage that is anything but conventional a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63454095">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26665653">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jason]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 08 11:58:26 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 17 07:31:13 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)<br/><br/><strong>The CCLaP 100:</strong> In which I read a hundred so-called &quot;classics&quot; for the first time...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26665653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71324772">
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    <name><![CDATA[John]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 15 13:47:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 15 13:52:04 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[  The only Bernard Shaw play that I have seen in person, this was a delight to read.   During the actual play itself, some of the dialogue and settings passed me by at too rapid a pace to savor and take in.  Witty repartees and a tight fast moving plot make this play memorable, even in written, not ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71324772">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50079940">
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    <location><![CDATA[Sherman Oaks, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 22 13:03:02 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 22 13:05:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good, but not great. This play is surprisingly shallow for Shaw. It is a nice story about loving relationships, but only one of the characters is challenged in any way and the whole play feels a little slight.<br/><br/>I guess I was just expecting more.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50079940]]></url>
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    <review id="40339309">
    <user id="1131846">
    <name><![CDATA[Ed]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Dec 21 20:33:04 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An established couple is forced to reavaluate their love. Interesting that, as a drama, the author's descriptions of what the characters are feeling often come from stage directions and non-spoken descriptions.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40339309]]></url>
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    <review id="53339761">
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    <body><![CDATA[CCLap verdict: not a classic. Although George Bernard Shaw himself is a great figure of the literary arts, only one to win both a Nobel and an Oscar, etc.. etc..]]></body>
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    <review id="60334306">
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 19 14:31:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a strange sense of humor about love and supposed love.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60334306]]></url>
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    <review id="36809511">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jessica Frank]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 03 03:21:15 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 25 08:09:13 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[great satire.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36809511]]></url>
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    <review id="4794955">
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    <name><![CDATA[Maiken]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 19 23:17:13 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Candida is an extraordinary literary figure.  An incredibly progressive woman; charming, motherly, intelligent, affectionate and not afraid to ask for what she wants.  And what she wants is not typical.<br/><br/>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4794955]]></url>
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    <review id="32027946">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 04 14:48:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Simple and surprisingly slow to get through despite how short it is, but a good representation of the Victorian style of drama.]]></body>
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    <review id="18850153">
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    <name><![CDATA[dead letter office]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Mar 28 10:27:32 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[the book that ended my short-lived relationship with george bernard shaw.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18850153]]></url>
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    <review id="21306001">
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    <name><![CDATA[Majid]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Iran, Islamic Republic of]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 30 01:57:29 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[love whoever you want and donot care for anything else]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21306001]]></url>
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    <review id="4777203">
    <user id="144973">
    <name><![CDATA[Michael]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 19 14:50:13 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I still need to figure out what this play was saying]]></body>
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    <review id="3998128">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent, melancholy Shaw play.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[]]></body>
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