# Pygmalion

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- Authors: [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-bernard-shaw)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2003-01-30
- Genres: Films, cinema, Television, Radio / podcasts, Plays, playscripts, drama, Classic plays / drama, Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction in translation

## Description

Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, 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.

## Editions

### Pygmalion

- Publisher: bbc_digital_audio
- Medium: audio
- Length: 2 h 38 min
- Narrated by: Al Murray, Sian Phillips, Alistair McGowan
- ISBN: 978-17-8753-153-6
- Published: 2018-08-02
- Language: en_GB

### Pygmalion

- Publisher: fingerprint
- ISBN: 978-81-7599-436-2
- Pages: 148
- Published: 2017-02-01
- Language: en_US

### Pygmalion

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4190-127-5
- Published: 2003-01-30
- Language: en_GB

### Pygmalion

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4143-950-1
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2003-01-30
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Pygmalion](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-bernard-shaw/cs/pygmalion) (cs_CZ)
- [Pygmalion](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-bernard-shaw/de/pygmalion) (de_DE)
- [Пігмаліон](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-shou/uk/pihmalion) (uk_UA)