{"product_id":"pygmalion-black-classics","title":"Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts (Penguin Classics) [2003] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePygmalion\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an Introduction by NICHOLAS GRENE\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shaw, George Bernard \u0026 Grene, Nicholas","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42500629430457,"sku":"9780141439501","price":11.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47174934462803,"sku":"XG80141439501","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47744893649235,"sku":"XV80141439501","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/shaw-george-bernard-grene-nicholas-pygmalion-a-romance-in-five-acts-penguin-classics-2003-paperback-54701895287123.jpg?v=1709202020","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/pygmalion-black-classics","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}