Pygmalion
Author(s): Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, 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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin
- : 0.26
- : March 2003
- : 198mm X 129mm X 8mm
- : October 2002
- : books
Special Fields
- : 1R
- : Paperback
- : Bernard Shaw