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    Heartbreak House
    Heartbreak House
    Heartbreak House
    Audiobook3 hours

    Heartbreak House

    Written by George Bernard Shaw

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye’s infamous dinner parties. Unfortunately, her fiancé is a scoundrel, her father’s a bumbling prig, and she’s actually in love with Hector, Hesione’s husband. This bold mix of farce and tragedy lampoons British society as it blithely sinks towards disaster. (Summary by Wikipedia)

    Cast
    Nurse Guinness: Bev J. Stevens
    Ellie Dunn: Arielle Lipshaw
    Captain Shotover: Bruce Pirie
    Lady Ariadne Utterword: Caprisha Page
    Hesione Hushabye: Elizabeth Klett
    Mazzini Dunn: Leonard Wilson
    Hector Hushabye: Bob Neufeld
    Boss Mangan: Delmar H. Dolbier
    Randall Utterword: mb
    The Burglar: Todd
    Narrator: Elizabeth Klett

    Audio edited by Elizabeth Klett

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Author

    George Bernard Shaw

    George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856 and moved to London in 1876. He initially wrote novels then went on to achieve fame through his career as a journalist, critic and public speaker. A committed and active socialist, he was one of the leaders of the Fabian Society. He was a prolific and much lauded playwright and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He died in 1950.

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