Pygmalion a Romance in Five Acts

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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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141439501
Published: January 2003

Number of pages: 144
Width: 129 mm
Height: 199 mm
Depth: 10 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd