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  • Pygmalion

    George Bernard Shaw

    Paperback (Filiquarian, Nov. 7, 2007)
    Pygmalion is a comedy which features a unique relationship between a spunky flower girl and her speech professor. In this George Bernard Shaw classic, flower girl Eliza Doolittle teaches her speech professor Henry Higgins that being a lady is more than just speaking like one. This is a truly important work for those who are fans of the writings of George Bernard Shaw and should not be passed up by individuals who are fans of comedic and witty plays.
  • Pygmalion

    Bernard Shaw, Rachel Lay

    eBook (, April 20, 2014)
    • The book includes 10 unique illustrations that are relevant to its content.Pygmalion is a 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw.Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion was the creator of a sculpture which came to life and was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story in 1871, called Pygmalion and Galatea. Shaw also would have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the musical My Fair Lady and the film of that name.
  • Pygmalion

    Bernard Shaw

    eBook (Musaicum Books, Jan. 31, 2018)
    Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
  • Pygmalion

    George Bernard Shaw

    eBook (Dover Publications, July 24, 2016)
    Based on the classic legend, Pygmalion is about Professor Henry Higgins, a teacher of phonetics. Higgins takes on Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, as his student. She is transformed from a guttersnipe into an elegant woman but then, like the statue of the legend, having come to life, she falls in love with Higgins. This new digital edition of Pygmalion includes an image gallery.
  • PYGMALION

    George Bernard Shaw

    eBook (Musaicum Books, Aug. 7, 2017)
    This beautifully illustrated eBook edition of "PYGMALION" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.Excerpt:"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him." (Pygmalion, Preface)Named after a Greek mythological character the play was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence and has been successfully adapted into a motion picture and a musical comedy.George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer and wrote more than 60 plays. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938).
  • Pygmalion

    George Bernard Shaw

    eBook (e-artnow, April 26, 2015)
    This carefully crafted ebook: "Pygmalion (Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Excerpt:"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him." (Pygmalion, Preface)Named after a Greek mythological character the play was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence and has been successfully adapted into a motion picture and a musical comedy.George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer and wrote more than 60 plays. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938).
  • Pygmalion

    George Bernard Shaw

    eBook (e-artnow, July 31, 2017)
    This carefully crafted ebook: "Pygmalion (Complete Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Excerpt: "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him." (Pygmalion, Preface) Named after a Greek mythological character the play was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence and has been successfully adapted into a motion picture and a musical comedy. George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer and wrote more than 60 plays. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938).
  • Pygmalion

    Bernard Shaw, Professor of English Literature Nicholas Grene, Dan H Laurence

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Feb. 4, 2003)
    Shaw's expos of the British class system--featuring the enduring characters of Professor Henry Higgins and the gutter-snipe Eliza Doolittle he vows to turn into a lady--remains his most popular play. Includes Shaw's Preface and sequel.
  • Pygmalion

    George Bernard Shaw

    Mass Market Paperback (Simon & Schuster, June 26, 2001)
    When George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion more than a half century ago, no one could have predicted his play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time -- My Fair Lady -- and an Academy Award³-winning motion picture. Generations of readers and theatergoers have found relevance in Shaw's story of speech therapist Henry Higgins, who successfully transforms Liza Doolittle, a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe," into a darling of high society who momentarily upsets his hard-edged reserve. The extraordinary wit of this master dramatist of the twentieth century cuts away at the artificiality of class distinctions to reveal that human clay can be molded into wondrous shapes. Washington Square Press' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of Pygmalion includes the analysis of Eric Bentley from his book Bernard Shaw. Essential biographical and historical background is provided, together with notes, critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading. A unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographs helps bring the play to life.
  • Pygmalion

    Geroge Bernard Shaw

    eBook (Start Publishing LLC, Jan. 24, 2013)
    Pygamalion tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In the process, Higgins and Doolittle grow close, but she ultimately rejects his domineering ways and declares she will marry Freddy Eynsford-Hill-- a young, poor gentleman.
  • Pygmalion

    George Bernard Shaw

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, March 28, 2014)
    "What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day." One of George Bernard Shaw's most famous works, written in 1912, Pygmalion references the mythological Greek sculptor, who falls in love with his creation- a statue of the perfect woman. In Shaw's play, phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, engages in a social experiment to transform Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, into a refined young lady, through the most important element, of which he believes, is impeccable speech. Shaw wittily exposes the British social hierarchy of the times, incorporating themes of feminism, human behavior and relations between the sexes.
  • Pygmalion

    George Bernard Shaw

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Sept. 28, 2017)
    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 of phonetics, takes on a bet that he can train Eliza to be a proper lady. This play served as the basis for the musical, My Fair Lady.