# Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts

Author: Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946

Genre: Category: Plays/Films/Dramas

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15788

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Waste%3A+A+Tragedy%2C+In+Four+Acts+Granville-Barker&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_Facing you at her piano by the window, from which she is protected by a little screen, sits_ MRS. FARRANT; _a woman of the interesting age, clear-eyed and all her face serene, except for a little pucker of the brows which shows a puzzled mind upon some important matters. To become almost an ideal hostess has been her achievement; and in her own home, as now, this grace is written upon every movement. Her eyes pass over the head of a girl, sitting in a low chair by a little table, with the shaded lamplight falling on her face. This is_ LUCY DAVENPORT; _twenty-three, undefeated in anything as yet and so unsoftened. The book on her lap is closed, for she has been listening to the music. It...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waste-a-tragedy-in-four-acts-15788/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waste-a-tragedy-in-four-acts-15788/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waste-a-tragedy-in-four-acts-15788/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waste-a-tragedy-in-four-acts-15788/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waste-a-tragedy-in-four-acts-15788/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waste-a-tragedy-in-four-acts-15788/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waste-a-tragedy-in-four-acts-15788/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waste-a-tragedy-in-four-acts-15788/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waste-a-tragedy-in-four-acts-15788/chapters/9/index.md)