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Pygmalion (Annotated)
Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after an ancient Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912.
Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower woman, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.
This edition has been formatted for your Ibooks reader, with an active table of contents. It has also been annotated, with extensive additional information about the play and its author, including an overview, plot information, adaptations, references to popular culture, biographical and bibliographical information.
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