Pygmalion Paperback / softback
by George Bernard Shaw
Paperback / softback
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'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914.
A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views.
In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society.
The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own. With an Introduction by NICHOLAS GRENE
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:30/01/2003
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- ISBN:9780141439501
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:30/01/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141439501