{"product_id":"9781847498595","title":"Pygmalion: 1941 version with variants from the 1916 edition - George Bernard Shaw","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen   professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he   could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess,   little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with   difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance the girl in question,   Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her own. Things come to   a crux when the creature starts to rebel against her creator – and the scene   is set for a play that questions the class system, social appearances and the   role of women in society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Universally regarded as Shaw's most successful work, Pygmalion – here   presented in its definitive 1941 version, with footnotes indicating the   textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 – has spawned a great   number of adaptations, among them the famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair   Lady, and shows ancient myth's undiminished ability to find new incarnations   in modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Bernard Shaw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":50843256062234,"sku":"9781847498595","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0790\/0184\/6042\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b3515d1c-9be8-4bf1-8b21-ca16fe5dad61.jpg?v=1752248641","url":"https:\/\/www.musicandbooksayr.com\/products\/9781847498595","provider":"Music \u0026 Books Ayr","version":"1.0","type":"link"}