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Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
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Description for Pygmalion
Paperback. Shaw's dramatization of a Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women's independence. Num Pages: 144 pages, chronology. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141439501
SKU
V9780141439501
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99-99
About George Bernard Shaw
Dublin-born George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He was strongly critical of London theatre and closely associated with the intellectual revival of British drama. Dan H. Laurence has edited Shaw's COLLECTED LETTERS and COLLECTED PLAYS with their Prefaces. He was Literary Advisor to the Shaw Estate until his ... Read more
Reviews for Pygmalion
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature “[Shaw] did his best in redressing the fateful unbalance between truth and reality, in lifting mankind to a higher rung of social maturity. He often pointed a scornful finger at human frailty, but his jests were never at the expense of humanity.” —Thomas Mann “Shaw will not ... Read more