Printed Book

Pygmalion

---

Written in 1912, Pygmalion quickly became a legend in its own time. The characters, situations, and dialogue Bernard Shaw supplies are rich, ebullient, and unmatched in wit as the infamous Henry Higgins prepares to "make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe."

Thus begins this classic tale as Shaw pokes fun at smugness and priggish conventionality. Who can forget professor Henry Higgins with his passionate interest in the science of phonetics and the improvement of British speech, or of course, poor Eliza Doolittle, who is one of the great heroines of the 20th century?

Get ready to enjoy the greatest Shaw romp of them all as Higgins prepares to transform a common flower girl into a creature "the king of England would accept as royalty

---

Availability

Detail Information

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 SHA P

Publisher

United Kingdom : Penguin., 2003

Collation

119p; bw; pbk

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780141439501

Classification

823

Content Type

-

Media Type

-

Carrier Type

-

Edition

-

Subject(s)

Fiction
Classic

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

-

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment