THREE PLAYS
Reading edition
BY BRIEUX (Member of the French Academy) MATERNITY DAMAGED GOODS THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF MONSIEUR DUPONT WITH PREFACE BY BERNARD SHAW Translated into English By Mrs. BERNARD SHAW, ST. JOHN HANKIN and JOHN POLLOCK 12mo. Cloth, price $1.50 net
"In that kind of comedy," writes BERNARD SHAW, "which is so true to life that we have to call it tragi-comedy, and which is not only an entertainment but a history and a criticism of contemporary morals, BRIEUX is incomparably the greatest writer France has produced since Moliere."
The three plays in this volume are a first instalment into English of the work of a man who has been admitted into the French Academy for his splendid achievements, and who is recognized by the best thinkers in Europe as one of the profoundest moral forces expressing itself as literature to-day.
No earnest man or woman can read these plays without being deeply moved and deeply touched. One of the plays was read by Brieux himself, at the special invitation of the pastor, from the pulpit of a church in Geneva.