Pygmalion
Book formats
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Book short specifications
- Author
- George Bernard Shaw, Nicholas Grene
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Language
- english
- Release date
- January 30, 2003
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-143950-1
- GTIN
- 9780141439501
- Weight, g
- 112
About
'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