Download or read book Shrivings written by Peter Shaffer and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English pacifist, his devoted American secretary, and young guest, the son of the pacifist's former poet-student await the latter's visit. The poet manages to destroy belief in man's improvability of the entire household by his nihilistic, violent nature.