by George Bernard Shaw read by G. R. Schjelderup
Time: 1916. Place: Somewhere in No Man's Land, North-Eastern France. Dramatis Personæ : Wilhelm II, German Emperor, King of Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg, etc., etc., and a little French girl ' much too young to be up at a quarter to twelve in the middle of the night'. Hardly any story-writer who hit on that idea could fail to produce something striking. And it is hardly necessary to say that Shaw produced a tale that is much more than merely striking, a tale that brilliantly avoids all the pitfalls that surround such a theme.
'The Emperor and the Little Girl' was written in 1916 for the Vestiaire Marie-Jose , a Belgian war charity for children.