Pygmalion

Name: Pygmalion
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: George Bernard Shaw
ISBN: 9798875106033

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Narrator: Michael Ward

Unabridged: 2 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 05/29/2024

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

George Bernard Shaws most well known work, adapted multiple times by film and stage, such as My Fair Lady and Pretty Woman, "Pygmalion" premiered in Vienna in 1913 before coming to england in 1914 on London's West End.
This 5 act play introduces us to the irascible Professor Henry Higgins, who in taking a bet from a Colonel Pickering agrees to take a girl from the gutter, Eliza Doolittle, and teach her the accent and manners of high society. But afterwards, what's to happen to her?
Narrated by Michael Ward.

About George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856â€“1950), Irish-born playwright, critic, and political activist, began his writing career in London. In addition to writing sixty-three plays, his prodigious output as critic, pamphleteer, and essayist influenced numerous social issues. In 1925, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature and in 1938 an Oscar for the movie version of Pygmalion.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on June 21, 2023

Ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo! Exceptional linguist Professor Henry Higgins meets gentleman Colonel Pickering and they whimsically set on crazy bet to pass off Eliza, a low class street flower girl, as a respectable royal lady of the high society. Little do they know Eliza has a few talents of her own. This wa......more

Goodreads review by Dave on March 31, 2012

This is fun to read out loud in crazy English accents while stomping around your apartment. The neighbors might not like it but screw 'em.......more

Goodreads review by Meghhnaa on September 28, 2022

Pygmalion is a verbose, satirical, romantic play, distributed over 5 Acts, with no scenes! The play opens with the following preparatory lines- “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. German and Spanish are accessible to foreigne......more

Goodreads review by Candi on May 03, 2019

3.5 stars "… you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul." Even if you are not already familiar with Geor......more