Penguin Classics : Pygmalion
Category:Classics

Penguin Classics : Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

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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.