{"product_id":"9780141439501","title":"Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw","description":"'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'Pygmalion 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.   With an Introduction by NICHOLAS GRENE;  144 pages; Published: 30\/01\/2003\u003cdiv class=\"goodreadr\" data-isbn=\"9780141439501\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56457004220798,"sku":"9780141439501","price":19.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0913\/1298\/0350\/files\/9780141439501.jpg?v=1761330441","url":"https:\/\/it-book.co.uk\/products\/9780141439501","provider":"IT-Book","version":"1.0","type":"link"}