
Category:Classics
Penguin Classics : Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
LKR 1,895.00
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- Item SKU:
- 64848
- Author:
- George Bernard Shaw
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Limited
- Edition:
- 1st
- ISBN:
- 9780141439501
- EAN13:
- 9780141439501
Product Description
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.