Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw: photo of the front cover which shows a fair amount of creasing, scratches, and general age and wear.
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw: photo of the back cover which shows a fair amount of creasing, sractching, scuff marks, and general age and wear.
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Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw (Paperback, 1986)

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Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'  

Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views.

In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist 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.  

With over a hundred drawings by Feliks Topolski

 

 Paperback | 160 pages

 18.1 x 11.1 x 1 | 194g

 

 Penguin Books Ltd

 Penguin Plays

 Middlesex, United Kingdom

 English

Illustrations note: b&w illustrations 

014048003X

9780140480030

 

Condition: Good

A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Some obvious damage to the cover including a fair amount of creasing, scratches and scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with some minor creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, and no highlighting of text. A previous owner has written their name in blue pen at the top of the title page, but no other writing in margins. No missing pages. An old and worn, but still clean, solid, and readable copy.