Arms and The Man (Annotated)

Arms and The Man (Annotated)
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (Author)
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This play takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. Its heroine, Raina Petkoff, is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff, one of the heroes of that war, whom she idolizes. One night, a Swiss mercenary soldier in the Serbian army, Captain Bluntschli, bursts through her bedroom window and firstly threatens Raina, then begs her to hide him, so that he is not killed. Raina complies, though she thinks the man a coward, especially when he tells her that he does not carry pistol cartridges, but chocolates. When the battle dies down, Raina and her mother sneak Bluntschli out of the house, disguised in an old housecoat.

• Rank: #207040 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-04-11
• Released on: 2014-04-11
• Format: Kindle eBook