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- Book Synopsis
- When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance the girl in question, Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her own. Things come to a crux when the creature starts to rebel against her creator - and the scene is set for a play that questions the class system, social appearances and the role of women in society. Universally regarded as Shaw's most successful work, Pygmalion - here presented in its definitive 1941 version, with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 - has spawned a great number of adaptations, among them the famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, and shows ancient myth's undiminished ability to find new incarnations in modern life.
- About The Author
- The author of over fifty works for the stage - among them Pygmalion and Man and Superman - the Irish playwright and political writer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was the leading dramatist of his generation and the recipient of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781847498595
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Alma Classics, (14 July 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 155
- Weight
- 148 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 18 mm
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