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Pygmalion: A Romance in five Acts (Penguin Classics) Book
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Foyles
'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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Play
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.
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BookDepository
Pygmalion : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141439501 : 0141439505 : 04 Feb 2003 : 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.
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Blackwell
Shaw's expos of the British class system--featuring the enduring characters of Professor Henry Higgins and the gutter-snipe Eliza Doolittle he vows to turn into a lady--remains his most popular play. Includes Shaw's Preface and sequel.
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Pickabook
George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence (Editor), Nicholas Grene
- 0141439505
- 9780141439501
- George Bernard Shaw
- 30 January 2003
- Penguin Classics
- Paperback (Book)
- 176
- Rev Ed
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