{"product_id":"pygmalion-1","title":"Pygmalion","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\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 144 pages | Published January 2003\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63977850011997,"sku":"9780141439501","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/pygmalion-1","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}