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Pygmalion

Pygmalion

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Romance

ISBN10: 1516846893
ISBN13: 9781516846894
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 11 2015
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Pygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (based on phonetician Henry Sweet), who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In the process, Higgins and Doolittle grow close, but she ultimately rejects his domineering ways and declares she will marry Freddy Eynsford-Hill --- a young, poor, gentleman. - The play was later the basis for the successful movie adaptation My Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn as Eliza and Rex Harrison as Prof. Higgins.

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