Pygmalion : a romance in five acts

by Bernard Shaw

Paperback, 1973

Collection

Status

Available

Description

Classic Literature. Drama. Fiction. HTML: 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..

Publication

Baltimore : Penguin Books, 1973, c1944.

ISBN

014048003X / 9780140480030

Pages

125

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1913-10-16 (performed)
1914-11 (printed)
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