Bernard Shaw
1) Pygmalion
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Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, of Protestant stock, in 1856, and died at Ayot St. Lawrence, Herts., in 1950. After a false start in XIX-century fashion as a novelist, he made a reputation as a journalist-critic of books, pictures, music and the drama. Meanwhile he had plunged into the Socialist revival of the eighteen-eighties and come out as one of the leaders who made the Fabian Society famouns, figuring prominently not only as a pamphleteer...
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2009
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Science and religion are compatible, declares the famous physicist. In these essays, Einstein views science as the basis for a "cosmic" religion, embraced by scientists, theologians, and all who share a sense of wonder in the rationality and beauty of the universe. In the course of his career, Einstein wrote more than 300 scientific and 150 nonscientific publications. These essays date from the 1930s and 40s. In direct, everyday language the author...
11) Arms and the man
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1990
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Presents the romantic falsifications of love and warfare in a comedy that reveals the author's skilss as an acute social observer and witty provocateur.
19) My fair lady
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[2009]
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Henry Higgins, the supremely assured phoeneticist wagers that under his tutelage, cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle can pass for a duchess at the Embassy Ball.