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Pygmalion : a romance in five acts / by Bernard Shaw ; with ... drawings by Feliks Topolski
de Shaw, Bernard (1856-1950)
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Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1946. Reprint Penguin Edition. Softcover. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 157, [3] pages; 18 cm. Notes: First published in Penguin Books (film version), 1941. Summary: ""A barbed attack on the British class system, Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own."" Subjects: English drama -- 20th century. England -- Drama -- 20th century. Drama. English drama. Penguin classics.
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In George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion a phonetician believes the power of speech is such that he can introduce a Cockney flower girl to polite society after careful language and etiquette training, and no one will discern her true roots. The professor and the flower girl grown close, but after her successful debut she rejects the professor and his overbearing ways for a poor gentleman.The most famous adaptation of the play is the 1964 film My Fair Lady, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.
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- Pygmalion : a romance in five acts / by Bernard Shaw ; with ... drawings by Feliks Topolski
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- Shaw, Bernard (1856-1950)
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- Reprint Penguin Edition
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- Harmondsworth: Penguin
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- 1946
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