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One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and a great hit with its musical version, My Fair Lady . An updated and considerably revised version of the ancient Greek legend of... Read Full Overview

George Bernard Shaw's classic play about Eliza Doolittle and Professor Henry Higgins. Based on the Greek myth in which a sculptor falls in love with his creation, Pygmalion tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a lower class girl with a cockney accent. Henry Higgins, a professor... Read Full Overview

Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess... Read Full Overview

Pygmalion , written by George Bernard Shaw in 1912, is a play about transformation. The story follows the journey of Eliza Doolittle, a young woman from a lower-class background, who is taught to speak with a higher-class accent by Professor Henry Higgins. Through Higgins' tutelage,... Read Full Overview

A chance meeting between Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, and Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle leads to a bet that he can teach her how to speak proper English. While Higgins undertakes an effort to train Liza out of her Cockney accent to prove that it is one's manner... Read Full Overview

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess... Read Full Overview

First performed in 1913, "Pygmalion" is George Bernard's Shaw's play regarding two scholars of phonetics, Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering, trying to test their theories on an unsuspecting flower girl. When Higgins boasts he could pass anyone off as a lord or... Read Full Overview

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it... Read Full Overview

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a witty and thought-provoking play that explores class, identity, and the power of language. Immerse yourself in this captivating story of transformation and social commentary, crafted by one of the greatest playwrights of all time.
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One of Shaw's best works, Pygmalion is a perceptive comedy of wit and wisdom about the unique relationship between a spunky cockney flower-girl and her irascible speech professor. The flower girl Eliza Doolittle teaches the egotistical phonetics professor Henry Higgins that to... Read Full Overview

Based on the classic legend, Pygmalion is about Professor Henry Higgins, a renowned teacher of phonetics. Higgins takes on Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, as his student. Under his guidance, Eliza is transformed from a guttersnipe into an elegant woman but then, like... Read Full Overview

Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic Shaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle--"an east-end dona with an apron and three orange and red ostrich... Read Full Overview

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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,

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw that tells the story of a poor, young flower girl who has been disrespected and overlooked because of her appearance and the dialect she speaks. In Shaw's clever adaptation, Professor Henry Higgins, a linguistic expert, takes on a bet... Read Full Overview