在线阅读本书 In this sparkling comedy, originally staged in 1905, Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His energetic daughter Barbara, however, is a devout 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.

Dona Barbara, en la que la llanura venezolana es el personaje central, es su obra de mayor exito. En ella dramatiza el conflicto entre civilizacion y barbarie que a su parecer definia el ser de Venezuela y su realidad. El final feliz simboliza un futuro esperanzador para el pais.

萧伯纳（George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950） 英国戏剧家。生于爱尔兰首都都柏林。父亲是破落 贵族。母亲是很有才能的音乐家。他从1879年开始文学 活动，一生共写剧本五十多部（还有小说和其他著作）。 数量之多，在英国文学史上前无古人；他敢于无情地挑 破社会的脓疮、人性的伪装，所产生的惊世骇俗的力 量。也是英国文学史上前无古人的。他1925年获得诺贝 尔文学奖。其主要剧作有《华伦夫人的职业》、《康蒂 妲》、《魔鬼的门徒》、《人与超人》、《芭巴拉少 校》、《苹果车》、《真相毕露》等。他写的《易卜生 主义的精华》一书，是现代欧洲戏剧史上的一部重要论 著。 《芭巴拉少校》是萧伯纳戏剧中颇为精彩的一部， 典型地反映出萧伯纳戏剧的艺术特色――幽默和讽刺。 他特别喜欢运用的手法是，使剧中人物发出似非而是的 妙论，不仅使人笑，使人啼，而且促人深...(展开全部)

In this sparkling comedy, originally staged in 1905, Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His energetic daughter Barbara, however, is a devout 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.

American power and a pervasive globalization are the central realities of today's world, and the source of its thorniest dilemmas. Yet while America's unprecedented might should be the source of global security, Americans today feel less secure than ever. Globalization promotes American dominance even as it breeds anti-American resentment. In The Choice, former National Securit...(展开全部)

'though a great many men and not a few women knew Ferdinand Lopez very well, none of them knew whence he had come' Despite his mysterious antecedents, Ferdinand Lopez aspires to join the ranks of British society. An unscrupulous financial speculator, he determines to marry into respectability and wealth, much against the wishes of his prospective father-in-law. One of the nin...(展开全部)

Much against his will, the Duke of Omnium consents to lead a coalition government. The Duchess quickly becomes a social figure of great power striving to consolidate his support. Together they make their way to the centre of society and, like Phineas Finn before them, they find it hollow. The novel is haunted by the mysterious Ferdinand Lopez whose pernicious influence the Duk...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England - a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that goes with it - is appalled at the inexorable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. An exotic impostor, seemingly from nowhere, Lopez has society at his feet, while well-connected ladies vie with each other to exert influence on his behalf - even Palliser's o...(展开全部)