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  • Published: 28 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141195070
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 122
  • RRP: $14.99

Pygmalion: Popular Penguins



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.

  • Published: 28 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141195070
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 122
  • RRP: $14.99

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Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw was one of the greatest 20th Century dramatists. He wrote over 60 plays, including Arms and the Man (1894), Man and Superman (1903), Pygmalion (1912-13) and Saint Joan (1923). In addition, he also authored five novels and two collections of short stories. He is the only person to have been honoured with both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938, for Pygmalion). Shaw was offered a knighthood, but turned it down, as he refused most awards. He died in 1950, aged 94.

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