Augustus Does His Bit

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781514336106
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustus Does His Bit written by George Bernard Shaw and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mayor's parlor in the Town Hall of Little Pifflington. Lord Augustus Highcastle, a distinguished member of the governing class, in the uniform of a colonel, and very well preserved at forty-five, is comfortably seated at a writing-table with his heels on it, reading The Morning Post. The door faces him, a little to his left, at the other side of the room. The window is behind him. In the fireplace, a gas stove. On the table a bell button and a telephone. Portraits of past Mayors, in robes and gold chains, adorn the walls. An elderly clerk with a short white beard and whiskers, and a very red nose, shuffles in.

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722682279
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustus Does His Bit written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustus Does His Bit by Bernard Shaw AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT The Mayor's parlor in the Town Hall of Little Pifflington. Lord Augustus Highcastle, a distinguished member of the governing class, in the uniform of a colonel, and very well preserved at forty-five, is comfortably seated at a writing-table with his heels on it, reading The Morning Post. The door faces him, a little to his left, at the other side of the room. The window is behind him. In the fireplace, a gas stove. On the table a bell button and a telephone. Portraits of past Mayors, in robes and gold chains, adorn the walls. An elderly clerk with a short white beard and whiskers, and a very red nose, shuffles in. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724805300
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustus Does His Bit written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustus Does His Bit George Bernard Shaw The Mayor's parlor in the Town Hall of Little Pifflington. Lord Augustus Highcastle, a distinguished member of the governing class, in the uniform of a colonel, and very well preserved at forty-five, is comfortably seated at a writing-table with his heels on it, reading The Morning Post. The door faces him, a little to his left, at the other side of the room. The window is behind him. In the fireplace, a gas stove. On the table a bell button and a telephone. Portraits of past Mayors, in robes and gold chains, adorn the walls. An elderly clerk with a short white beard and whiskers, and a very red nose, shuffles in. AUGUSTUS [hastily putting aside his paper and replacing his feet on the floor]. Hullo! Who are you? THE CLERK. The staff [a slight impediment in his speech adds to the impression of incompetence produced by his age and appearance]. AUGUSTUS. You the staff! What do you mean, man? THE CLERK. What I say. There ain't anybody else. AUGUSTUS. Tush! Where are the others? THE CLERK. At the front. AUGUSTUS. Quite right. Most proper. Why aren't you at the front? THE CLERK. Over age. Fifty-seven. AUGUSTUS. But you can still do your bit. Many an older man is in the G.R.'s, or volunteering for home defence. THE CLERK. I have volunteered. AUGUSTUS. Then why are you not in uniform? We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517657710
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustus Does His Bit written by Bernard Shaw and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Augustus Does His Bit, Shaw again pokes fun at the smug British upper classes, which are incompetently represented by Lord Augustus Highcastle. Lord Highcastle commands a military base in a small British town during World War I where he is determined to do his part to defeat the Hun. This one act play succeeds not only as a witty comedy full of one-liners, but also as a surprisingly good farce.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781075220395
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustus Does His Bit written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dim-witted aristocrat with German family members is tricked by a female spy during World War I.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781515277200
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustus Does His Bit written by Bernard Shaw and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustus Does His Bit - A True-To-Life Farce - By George Bernard Shaw - Augustus Does His Bit, A True to Life Farce (1916) is a comic one-act play by George Bernard Shaw about a dim-witted aristocrat who is outwitted by a female spy during World War I. I wish to express my gratitude for certain good offices which Augustus secured for me in January, 1917. I had been invited to visit the theatre of war in Flanders by the Commander-in-Chief: an invitation which was, under the circumstances, a summons to duty. Thus I had occasion to spend some days in procuring the necessary passport and other official facilities for my journey. It happened just then that the Stage Society gave a performance of this little play. It opened the heart of every official to me. I have always been treated with distinguished consideration in my contracts with bureaucracy during the war; but on this occasion I found myself persona grata in the highest degree. There was only one word when the formalities were disposed of; and that was "We are up against Augustus all day." The showing-up of Augustus scandalized one or two innocent and patriotic critics who regarded the prowess of the British army as inextricably bound up with Highcastle prestige. But our Government departments knew better: their problem was how to win the war with Augustus on their backs, well-meaning, brave, patriotic, but obstructively fussy, self-important, imbecile, and disastrous. Save for the satisfaction of being able to laugh at Augustus in the theatre, nothing, as far as I know, came of my dramatic reduction of him to absurdity. Generals, admirals, Prime Ministers and Controllers, not to mention Emperors, Kaisers and Tsars, were scrapped remorselessly at home and abroad, for their sins or services, as the case might be. But Augustus stood like the Eddystone in a storm, and stands so to this day. He gave us his word that he was indispensable and we took it.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387028180
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress; and Augustus Does His Bit written by Bernard Shaw and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-03 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502931269
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustus Does His Bit written by Bernard Shaw and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...] AUGUSTUS. That's enough. Leave the room. [He sits down and takes up his pen, settling himself to work. The clerk shuffles to the door. Augustus adds, with cold politeness] Send me the Secretary. THE CLERK. I'M the Secretary. I can't leave the room and send myself to you at the same time, can I? AUGUSTUS, Don't be insolent. Where is the gentleman I have been corresponding with: Mr Horatio Floyd Beamish? THE CLERK [returning and bowing]. Here. Me. AUGUSTUS. You! Ridiculous. What right have you to call yourself by a pretentious name of that sort? THE CLERK. You may drop the Horatio Floyd. Beamish is good enough for me. AUGUSTUS. Is there nobody else to take my instructions? THE CLERK. It's me or nobody. And for two pins I'd chuck it. Don't you drive me too far. Old uns like me is up in the world now. AUGUSTUS. If we were not at war, I should discharge you on the spot for disrespectful behavior. But England is in danger; and I cannot think of my personal dignity at such a moment. [Shouting at him.] Don't you think of yours, [...]."

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789356087736
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustus Does His Bit written by Bernard Shaw and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "" Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce "" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781512329520
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustus Does His Bit, the Original Classic (Large Print) written by George Bernard Shaw and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wish to express my gratitude for certain good offices which Augustus secured for me in January, 1917. I had been invited to visit the theatre of war in Flanders by the Commander-in-Chief: an invitation which was, under the circumstances, a summons to duty. Thus I had occasion to spend some days in procuring the necessary passport and other official facilities for my journey. It happened just then that the Stage Society gave a performance of this little play. It opened the heart of every official to me. I have always been treated with distinguished consideration in my contracts with bureaucracy during the war; but on this occasion I found myself persona grata in the highest degree.