Pygmalion (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Alma Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Alma Classics Evergreens
Release date:	July 2021
Authors:	George Bernard Shaw
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-1-84749-859-5
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-84749-859-0
Barcode:	9781847498595

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