Pygmalion Penguin Classics
Shaw, George Bernard
ISBN 10: 0140437894 ISBN 13: 9780140437898
Published by Penguin Classics, 2001
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Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale with a feminist twist: while Henry Higgins successfully teaches Eliza Doolittle to speak and act like a duchess, she adamantly refuses to be his creation. This brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system will always entertain-first produced in 1914, it remains one of Shaw's most popular plays.
About the Author: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was one of the most prolific writers of the modern theater. He invented the modern comedy of ideas, expounding on social and political problems with a razor-sharp tongue. He won the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature.
Dan H. Laurence edited Shaw's Collected Letters, his Collected Plays with Their Prefaces, Shaw's Music, and (with Daniel Leary) The Complete Prefaces. He is series editor for the works of Shaw in Penguin.
Nicholas Grene is professor of English literature at Trinity College, Dublin.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Pygmalion Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Soft cover
Illustrator: Topolski, Feliks
Condition: Good