G.B.Shaw's "Heartbreak House". 'A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes'

The author George Bernard Shaw -he later dropped the name George- was born in Dublin in 1856, the third and youngest child of an alcoholic father and an undomestic mother. He developed an interest in literature, music and painting at a very early age, but was never enabled to go to university. At the age of fifteen he became an apprentice and during he stay there he started writing short literary articles for newspapers and magazines, …

…impudent, she is the captain's housekeeper and, as turns out later, Billy Dunn's wife. Randall Utterword, the younger brother of Ariadne's husband. He looks like a gentleman and is apparently well-mannered, but he later turns out to be untalented, peevish, and childish. He represents foolish aristocratic pride. He is in love with Ariadne, who in turn treats him like a small boy. Sir Hastings Utterword, Ariadne's husband. He never appears but is often referred to.