Pygmalion: a romance in five acts (Penguin classics) - Tapa blanda

Shaw, George Bernard

 
9780141439501: Pygmalion: a romance in five acts (Penguin classics)
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ISBN 10: 0141439505 ISBN 13: 9780141439501
Editorial: Penguin Classics, 2003

Sinopsis

'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 an Introduction by NICHOLAS GRENE

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Acerca del autor

Dublin-born George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He was strongly critical of London theatre and closely associated with the intellectual revival of British drama.
Dan H. Laurence has edited Shaw's COLLECTED LETTERS and COLLECTED PLAYS with their Prefaces. He was Literary Advisor to the Shaw Estate until his retirement in 1990.
Nicholas Grene is Professor of English at the University of Dublin.

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'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 an Introduction by NICHOLAS GRENE

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Editorial
Penguin Classics
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0141439505
ISBN 13 
9780141439501
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
144
Contacto del fabricante
Penguin
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/

CL MODESTO LAFUENTE 41
Madrid
Madrid
España

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780486282220: Pygmalion (Dover Thrift)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0486282228 ISBN 13:  9780486282220
Editorial: Dover Publications Inc., 1994
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