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Mrs Warren's Profession
George Bernard Shaw
publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1898



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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell


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Vivie Warren, a well-educated young woman, discovers that her mother has attained her present status and affluence by rising from poverty through prostitution.


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BOOKS BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:

Mrs Warren's Profession
1898
Vivie Warren, a well-educated young woman, discovers that her mother has attained her present status and affluence by rising from poverty through prostitution.
Major Barbara
1905
Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, 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.
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