Name: Pygmalion
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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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ISBN : 9780141439501
BY (AUTHOR) Shaw, George Bernard, INTRODUCTION BY Grene, Nicholas
PUBLISHER : Penguin Books Ltd	PUBLICATION DATE : January 30, 2003
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom	IMPRINT : Penguin Classics
LANGUAGE : English	AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback

DIMENSION : 197 mm x 129 mm
WEIGHT : 114 g

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies

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