Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, Major Barbara, Androcles and the Lion

New York: Modern Library, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. Modern Library, New York, 1956. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Early printing. Clean red cloth boards with black title box, gold lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or fading. Binding is tight and square, Corners bumped. Pages and edges are clean, Black top page edges. illustrated endpapers; previous owner name on back side corner of front endpaper. 479 pages. About: With Saint Joan, Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. Fascinated by the story of Joan of Arc (canonized in 1920), but unhappy with "the whitewash which disfigures her beyond recognition," he presents a realistic Joan: proud, intolerant, naïve, foolhardy, always brave-a rebel who Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw . The play is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles , a slave who is saved by the requiting mercy of a lion . In the play, Shaw portrays Androcles to be one of the many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture.challenged the conventions and values of her day. Major Barbara Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara , on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into her work as a major in the Salvation Army, and sees her father as another soul to be saved. N005