Widowers' houses: "Life here is a perfect idyll" -- Mrs. Warren's profession: the walled gardens -- Arms and the man: "I took care to let them know that we have a library" -- Candida: a wall of bookshelves and the best view of the garden -- Man and Superman: books on a garden table -- Major Barbara: the Salvation Army's "garden and cusins" books -- Misalliance: gardens and books as the means to new dramatic forms -- Heartbreak house: "A long garden seat on the west" -- Back to Methuselah: the original garden and a library too
An exploration of the various ways two settings, gardens and libraries, are used in various ways throughout Bernard Shaw's work