# Pygmalion

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- Book: [Pygmalion](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion) ([Pygmalion.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-bernard-shaw/pygmalion.md))
- Authors: [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-bernard-shaw)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4143-950-1
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2003-01-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.